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anus. They then pulled, and with little difficulty the mare 
was delivered. The foal lived about a week and then died.— 
Veterinary Record. 
EVERSION OF THE BLADDER IN A MARE. 
By Robert W. Clarke, M.R.C.V.S. 
On Wednesday, the 17th inst., at 9 P.M., 1 was called to 
attend a mare which had foaled without assistance sometime 
during the previous night, the foal being alive and to all ap¬ 
pearance healthy. I was told that she had not “ cleaned,’ 1 
and was paining hard. On my arrival I found the mare wan¬ 
dering round the box, occasionally stopping and stretching 
out as if to urinate, and being unable to do so she would pain 
as in parturition, and in so doing a purple body was just visi¬ 
ble between the labile of the vagina, which had been mis¬ 
taken by the owner for the foetal membranes. On examina¬ 
tion per manu I felt what I at first mistook for a pedunculated 
tumor attached to the floor of the vagina, about as large as a 
cocoanut, and which, when the mare was at rest, lay on the 
floor of the vagina between the neck of the uterus and its at¬ 
tachment to the vagina, but which when the mare pained was 
forced outward, so that a portion of it was visible. On part¬ 
ing the labias, two circumscribed patches about the size of a 
shilling were seen, one on either side ; and this, together with 
the position of its attachment to the vagina, convinced me 
that it was the bladder, and the two patches, like raised blis¬ 
ters, were the openings of the ureters. I immediately admin¬ 
istered one ounce of chloral hydrate to relieve the pain, and 
after squeezing as much blood as possible out of the tumor, I 
passed a small cane with a round knob about one inch in 
diameter into the vagina, and pressing the knob on to the 
fundus of the bladder I turned it toward the urethra and 
pressed gradually until the bladder, after a little opposition 
as the knob of the cane was passing through the urethra, was 
easily returned to its natural position. The mare immediately 
ceased paining, and though she suffered from some inflamma 
tion of the bladder for a few days, answered to treatment, and 
