REPORTS OF CASES. 
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state ihal in my experience I have found that once an animal is 
affected by loco to a certain point changing food does no Jood 
I have tried no other treatment. s 
MISSED labor—malpresentation—c.ESARIAN SECTION—re- 
COVERY. 
By T. E. Rogers, D.V.S., Woodsburg, N. J. 
On June 20th 1896, I was called to attend a young Holstein 
the W hnl fh 01 ; Wlth th f, hist ° r >' that this cow was lasfeervefby 
the bull thirteen months ago. At the end of the normal period 
of gestation she made bag, fell in behind and presented the 
usual preliminary phenomena of labor. These symptoms passed 
?nti and i the Ut ? rUS re , mamed <l niesc ent until the night of Tune 
19th, when active labor commenced. The calf was in the 
dorso-ventral position, the back of the calf downward head and 
neck tinned back and two front legs presenting. After numer¬ 
ous ruitless efforts to rectify the position, I removed the an¬ 
terior extremities and endeavored to bring up the head but was 
a no time able to touch it. I then eviscerated the calf fixed a 
blunt hook in the lumbar region, and tried to pull the fetus far 
enough back to let me get the head, but these, like the prior 
efforts were entirely futile. The cow became somewhat ex- 
Woto.m Th 7 ° btained the °, Wner ’ S Consent t0 P^fonn 
laparotomy. The cow was cast on the near side, and through 
an incision a foot long the uterus was exposed and brought ifp 
An incision m the right horn enabled me to get the hind ex 
tremities, and the calf was removed by several strono- assistants 
who were instructed to pull directly upward. No uterine 
Sired eS h aP - ed i mt ° + th f pentoneal cavity. The uterus was first 
hi rhf b> > rn i P w SUtU . res > the lon g cut end being left free 
these K 7 ’ and 16 P entoneal coat was then sutured over 
these by an uninterrupted over-and-over suture of silk The 
peritoneum was approximated by interrupted silk sutures and 
th 6 ™ u * culature and skm by interrupted sutures of heavy linen 
thread (the only available material). A heavy coat of tar was 
then placed 011 the wound track. The patient manifested no 
symptoms of shock or collapse, and her convalescence has been 
uninterrupted. 1 he wound healed well, and at no time was 
there anorexia or even suppression of the lacteal secretion. The 
medical treatment consisted of spiritus aetheris nitrosi with ace- 
amhd ; and, except its daily coating of tar, the wound received 
required no attention. The calf weighed over 100 lbs and 
when stretched out measured over six fee?in leimth 
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