EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
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probang inserted, with which the body was dislodged and 
forced into the rumen. When it was attempted to withdraw 
the probang, it broke at the joint, and the lower half remained 
in the gullet. She was released, and on the following morn¬ 
ing was recast, the rumen opened in the left flank lor five 
inches, admitting the operator’s hand, by which procedure 
the offending object was found partly in the rumen and part¬ 
ly in the oesophagus. Its removal, and a proper closure of the 
opening made, enabled the animal to make a good recovery, 
all of which has caused the doctor to resolve not again to use a 
celluloid probang. _ 
HYPERTROPHIED CLITORIS. 
Dr. A. W. Clement, of Baltimore, uses the pages of the 
October Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Ar¬ 
chives to report the case of a two-year-old hackney filly, which 
possessed an enlarged clitoris, was served by a stallion, and 
refusing his further embraces, was turned in a field with 
broodmares, when she began riding them, going through 
the motions of copulation, at which time the clitoris would 
become erect and protrude from the vulva four or five inches, 
and at the culmination of the act would ejaculate a fluid; all 
this while she refused the stallion. Amputation of the cli¬ 
toris resulted in a cessation of her amorous antics, and the 
wound healed perfectly. 
RUPTURE OF THE BLADDER. 
Dr. Wm. B. Kille, Woodstown, N. J., records a case of 
this rare accident in the Veterinary Magazine , Philadelphia, 
the rupture being sufficiently large to admit the index finger, 
located “ a short distance from its entrance into the vagina .” 
It is not clear whether the observer means that the bladder 
or the urethra was the seat of the lesion. In either case it is 
a rare accident from straining, which in this instance was un¬ 
doubtedly the cause, as the mare was found turned partially 
around in her stall, wedged effectually across it, and show¬ 
ing much evidence of a long and violent struggle to extricate 
herself. The accident to the bladder was observed at the 
post mortem, two days after its occurrence. 
Dr. W. F. La VERY, Chilicothe, Ohio, has recently accepted 
the position of Lecturer and Demonstrator of Surgery at the Ohio 
State University, Veterinary Department. Dr. Lavery is the 
right man in the right place. 
