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it was with difficulty replaced, and constant irrigations of cold 
water applied upon and inside of the rectum. By degrees the 
efforts of the animal subsided and the retention remained per¬ 
fect. But it required five hours of that continued treatment to 
obtain the result.— Progress. Veter. " 
EVERSION OF THE VAGINA AND OF THE BLADDER. 
By M. J. Guittard. 
A three-year-old cow has a prolapsus of the vagina about the 
size of a man’s head. If attempts are made to reduce, the ani¬ 
mal resists, struggles and makes violent efforts, which have a 
tendency to increase the difficulty. The bladder is largely in¬ 
tended and cannot be emptied. The animal is then thrown down, 
and with her four legs secured together, she is put on her back. 
In this position the bladder returns to its normal place, the 
urinary matter is free, the urine escapes, and by degrees the 
tumor diminishes, and the reduction completed by moderate 
pressure.— Ibid. 
OBSTRUCTION OF THE (ESOPHAGUS. 
By M. J. Guittard. 
One of those masses, as large as the fist, spheroid in form 
but somewhat flat, was found at the post mortem of a steer lo¬ 
cated in the oesophagus in its thoracic portion. The animal, 
which had been treated by an empiric, had presented all the 
symptoms offered in cases of oesophageal obstruction, with symp¬ 
toms of central pleuro-pneumonia, with dullness on percussion, 
crepitant moist rales &c. On exploration with the probang, the 
presence of the foreign body has been detected, but the instru¬ 
ment afterwards slipped into an empty space as in the pleural 
cavity. This was due to a rupture of the oesophagus made by 
the empiric, who had tried to displace the foreign body with a 
long flexible stick.— Ibid. 
