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But the os uteri, even after the parts were restored to their 
normal state, was found so completely closed that it was 
considered desirable to wait a few days, expecting that its 
contraction would become less. Meanwhile, the proprietor, 
fearing the result, had the animal slaughtered and sold. 
This occlusion of the uterus, at the moment of parturition, 
seems to be caused by the twisting of the vagina and the 
neck of the uterus, and which allows not of parturition taking 
place, by preventing the gradual pressure of the foetus; hence 
these anomalies must often occur together when the twisting 
has taken place a long time before parturition. The author 
therefore concludes that, in the first of these two cases, the 
torsion occurred only a short time before the period of par¬ 
turition, while in the second it must have taken place at a 
time when gestation was not so far advanced. 
Notwithstanding the ingenious means which may be re¬ 
sorted to in order to produce the torsion of these parts, and 
to restore them afterwards to their normal state in the dead 
body, it may be doubted if they are identical with what 
takes place in the living one. Twice the author has success¬ 
fully restored the parts by turning the body in the direction 
of the twist, which proves that this method may be used 
in preference to that of turning the animal in an inverse 
direction to the torsion. 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
QUARTERLY MEETING OF COUNCIL. 
At the quarterly meeting of the Council, held July 1 8, 
1860, 
Present :—The President, Messrs. Barrow, Broderick, 
Braby, Ellis, Harpley, Hunter, Jex, Lawson, Moon, 
Robinson, Seeker, Withers, Professor Simonds, and the 
Secretary, 
J. Wilkinson, Esq., the President, in the chair, 
* 
The minutes of the preceding meeting having been read 
and signed, 
The Registrar’s report was read and adopted. It stated 
that thirty-seven candidates have been admitted members of 
