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found on the spleen. The lungs, with* the exception of a few 
very small growths at the lower borders, were healthy, as 
were the pleura. The specimens examined under the micro¬ 
scope proved to be of a tuberculous nature.— Veterinary Jour¬ 
nal. 
EXTENSIVE RUPTURE DURING PARTURITION. 
By C. E. Dayus, M.R.C.V.S. 
On Monday night, the 15th inst., I was requested by R. 
J. Mann, Esq., the Home Farm, Acton Burnell, to at once 
attend a parturition case in a mare. From the messenger I 
elicited the following history of the case : The patient, a well- 
bred Yorkshire coaching mare, had gone a fortnight over the 
natural period of utero-gestation, and was first observed to 
be in a little pain that morning, but had afterward become 
quite easy, and had been turned out in the paddock, where 
she had remained grazing most of the day. 
About 7 P.M. she was taken with labor pains, and was 
placed in a loose box, her owner thinking she would foal im¬ 
mediately. She was left until 9 P.M , then finding that she 
remained about the same, I was sent for. Upon arrival I 
was met by Mr. Mann, who said, “We have got the foal 
away alive and with little trouble, but most strange to say, it 
came through the rectum,” which upon examination I found 
to be the case. 
The anus was considerably lacerated, as was also the rec¬ 
tum, being completely divided from the single colon, about 
two feet of which were hanging out through the anus. Upon 
examination per vagina I found that the os uteri was slightly 
dilated, admitting of but three fingers. Knowing that the 
uterus must be ruptured, and the patient being in a state of 
collapse, I ordered her to be at once destroyed. 
Post-mortem examination revealed an extensive rupture of 
the os, rupture of the single colon, and laceration of the rec¬ 
tum. Upon questioning the attendants I gathered that the 
mare had given several very heavy throes when suddenly the 
foal’s head and two fore legs were protruded through the 
