REPORTS OF CASES. 
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RUPTURE OF A BRONCHIAL TUBE. 
By H. D. Fenimore, D.V.S., Knoxville, Tenn. 
I was called to remove the placental membranes from a 
Jersey cow that had given birth to a calf the day before. All 
other symptoms were normal except that her breathing was 
somewhat labored, resembling emphysema. The next day her 
breathing was more labored, and a well-developed case of sub¬ 
cutaneous emphysema had set in. The air bags under the skin 
were very extensive on the sides of the head and neck, and 
along the back and loins. On questioning the owner he said 
that when he was drenching the cow before I had seen her, she 
gave a very violent expulsive effort, so much so that she fell. 
We put her on stimulant treatment, and let the air out through 
an incision in the skin. Her appetite and breathing gradually 
grew worse until her symptoms were so distressing that two 
weeks later we killed her. At the autopsy we found the sub¬ 
cutaneous tissue of the head, neck and back filled with air. 
The lungs showed a great number of very large bulbse, and 
some consolidation. The right bronchial tube showed a rup¬ 
ture one inch long between the second and third rings from the 
large bifurcation. The rupture as well as the emphysematous 
condition of the lungs was undoubtedly caused by the effort to 
expel the liquid from the lungs, at the time she received the 
drench, and at the same time set up a certain amount of trau¬ 
matic pneumonia. The air escaping from the rupture passed 
forward along the trachea into the subcutaneous tissue of the 
neck, and thence to other parts of the body. 
AMPUTATION OF THE UTERUS OF A COW. 
By W. H. Curtis, D.V.S., Marengo, Ill. 
I was called Dec. 30, 1895, to the farm of Mr. P. to attend a 
cow that had calved the night previous. Found inversion of 
uterus ; could not replace it. Amputated at neck by using three 
ligatures, ligating in three sections. Used creolin as an anti¬ 
septic, followed by daily injections of solution of boracic acid. 
Cow made a good recovery. 
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