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CASE OF INVERSION OF THE BLADDER OF A 
MARE. 
By C. Mont, Y.S., Glasgow. 
On the evening of the 24th April, a grey mare was 
brought into my yard, labouring under symptoms of inflam¬ 
mation of the bowels. I abstracted blood, and administered 
a sedative draught. x\fter she had been in the stable about 
an hour, she commenced straining violently, when I repeated 
the draught. 
A short time after, I observed something protruding from 
the vagina, which I at first thought was a foal making its 
appearance; but on examination, I found it was a case of 
inversion of the bladder; the os uteri was also dilated about 
an inch. I tried to return the bladder, but the straining 
was so great that I could not manage to do so. I therefore 
sent for Mr. W. Anderson, to ask him if he could suggest 
anything; but before he came the owner made his appear¬ 
ance, along with Mr. Ho watt, V.S., Pollockshaws, who could 
not believe it was the bladder protruding. When Mr. 
Anderson arrived, I requested him to examine the case, 
which he did, but was unable to get the bladder back into 
its proper position. The mare continued gradually to sink, 
and died about an hour after. 
I went up the next morning to the knacker’s to make a 
post-mortem examinations but my message, desiring them to 
keep the mare till six o’clock, had not been delivered. I 
was, however, just in time to see the last of her removed, 
and to obtain the bladder, which is now in my possession. 
I made inquiries of the man, who told me that the bowels 
were highly inflamed, but that the lungs, liver, and kidneys 
were healthy. So far as I can learn, the owner had the 
mare about three months, and about six weeks since she 
had an attack of cholic. She also had been struck by a cart 
tram somewhere between the hind legs, but to all appear¬ 
ance at the time this did not hurt her. 
This case appears to me to be rather a curious one, as 
the bladder was turned completely inside out, and yet its 
neck did not appear to be dilated to any unnatural extent; 
for, on trying to return the bladder, I could only get the 
points of two of my fingers through the neck. 
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