eversion of the uterus. 
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Her eyes and lips were swollen very much when I saw her 
pulse was hard, full and slow, temperature ioi° F, respiration 
With difficulty we got her from her position in the corner 
% giving her a brisk cathartic and local applications to head 
she very soon recovered. She had been affected this way once 
6 S ° 1 Was told > but after ‘his. having advised the owner 
not to feed any more meal she has never been affected. 
These two cases, I think, very well illustrate the two common 
diseases coming under the subject which I have chosen for my 
paper this evening. / J 
EVERSION OF THE UTERUS* 
By. W. H. Ridge, V.S., Trevose, Pa. 
Read before the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association. 
Syn. Prolapsus of the uterus ; inversion of the uterus. 
De f' It: ls tlle P assa ge of the uterus out of the pelvic cavity 
external to the vulvae. It is the turning of the uterus inside out’ 
. Hlstor y and Causes.—It happens at the time of parturition 
immediately following or within two or three days after parturi- 
tion. ^ 
. U can onl y happen when the cervix is dilated. Mostly seen 
m the cow, very rarely in the mare. (The chief object in this 
paper is to study it in the cow). 
It may occur after a short, easy parturition, but is mostly 
dreaded when labor has been difficult, and the fcetus has had 
much traction upon it. 
Retention of the placenta is a fruitful cause, spasm of the 
longitudinal muscular fibers of the uterus, tympanitic condition 
of the intestines. Excessive after-pains. Injudicious traction on 
t e foetal envelopes of a flaccid uterus, or pressure of the intes¬ 
tines, against the horn of a flaccid uterus, starting the inversion 
at this point of the uterus. Constipation is often a cause. 
_ I f stons - Are those of the uterus hanging external to the 
* This paper did uot reach us until late in October-hence its late publication. 
