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FALSE PRESENTATION IN A MARE FROM A BAND IN THE 
UTERUS, AND RUPTURE OF THE MESO-RECTUM, 
By the same. 
EARLY on Friday morning, the 27th April, 1849, a half-bred 
mare, the property of * * * was found foaling at her proper 
time. The head and one fore leg only presented. She was 
straining violently, and had forced down nearly half a yard of the 
rectum. Parties ran about for an hour and a half for a person to 
assist her; at length one was found, who first attempted to reduce 
the protruded gut, but could not. 
He then examined the situation of the foal, when he found one 
of the fore legs projecting over its neck, and forcing against the 
mare’s rectum. By pushing the foal back he got this leg into its 
proper situation, when she brought forth a small foal with little 
difficulty, and the placenta followed immediately. The rectum 
was then forced back. 
For five or six hours after she seemed as well as could be 
expected, licked the dead foal, and ate a mash and some hay; but 
from this time she gradually grew worse, appearing in a deal of 
pain. The owner did not come home until six or eight at night. 
He did little to her the whole of the night, thinking she would 
get better; although all this time she was very restless, getting- 
up and lying down, and rolling about most of the night. 
28 th.—Six A.M., I saw her for the first time: she was then 
lying at full length in the stable, sweating much, and struggling: 
soon after she got up. After giving her a short time to compose 
herself, I examined her pulse, and found that it was very irregular 
and intermittent, beating sometimes two or three beats hurriedly, 
and then stopping for a time; at other intervals it would beat five 
or six times together, and then intermit. She was not at all swollen 
in the abdomen, nor did she strain at all, nor were the parts about 
the vagina or anus swollen more than one would expect them to 
be so shortly after foaling. 
Treatment .—I did not think it prudent to bleed, but gave an 
anodyne combined with an aperient. I continued with her nearly 
the whole of the day. Her symptoms during the time were those 
of irritation in the bowels or uterus: I thought not exactly those 
of enteritis, she being restless, looking at her sides now and then, 
up and down, and occasionally attempting to roll over. 
Six, P. M.— No dung of any amount has passed. Introduced 
