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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annales (le Medecine Veterinaire , Bruxelles, 
For May, 1859. 
ON INVERSION OF THE WOMB OF THE LARGER 
DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 
By Moos. F. Deneubourg. 
When inversion of the uterus takes place in the females 
of our large domestic animals, the reduction of this organ 
is not the most difficult nor the most important thing to 
effect. To retain the organ in its place is the principal 
object to which the attention of the practitioner should be 
directed. 
The author asserts that inversion of the uterus is more 
frequent in the cow, ewe, and goat, than in any other of our 
domestic animals; that it occurs generally within twenty- 
four hours after parturition, and never after the third day ; 
that it is not dangerous in the cow, but speeddy fatal in 
the mare. 
The inversion of the uterus may be preceded bv that of 
the vagina, or the one may be followed by the other, in 
the first instance, the efforts to expel the foetus press the 
abdominal viscera backward, compress the organs contained 
in the pelvic cavity, and thereby cause the inversion of the 
vagina* In the second, the inverted uterus drags the vagina 
after it, or the vagina is inverted by the force of the traction 
exerted to withdraw the foetus. 
Causes .—This accident is frequently the consequence of 
difficult parturition, or of the extraction of the foetus or 
placenta by unskilful hands, which irritate, displace, or 
lacerate some part of the vagina or uterus. Spasms that 
appear without any apparent cause soon after parturition, 
and which are designated as uterine, distension of the 
stomach, constipation of the bowels, retention of urine, &c., 
are also other causes. The inversion is likewise greatly 
favoured by the inequality of the floor of the shed or stable, 
which is so constructed for the facility of draining, the ele- 
