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W. H. RIDGE. 
The next day was trying to rise, but could not; same 
treatment. 
May 18th.—Got up last night, does not eat, strains, back 
ached, muzzle dry, faeces becoming hard. Gave pot. nit. 3 i 
night and morning, also 
l^c Ext. dig, fl. § ss, 
Cinchonas sulph. §i, 
Acid sulph. 3 ii, 
Spt. vini. rect. 
Aqua fort, aa 3 ii. 
M. —Sig.—Two teaspoonfuls every two hours. 
Made a good recovery. 
Mare started in labor 5 a. m. Trainer soon saw that she. 
was not progressing. Assisted her by pulling on the foetus, 
soon delivering fore feet and head, when it stopped. He 
added more men pulling until eight men were pulling the 
mare around the box-stall, and in three hours had her com¬ 
pletely exhausted. When I arrived she was unable to raise 
her head from the bedding. He had ropes to the head and 
feet. The mare was torn at lower commissure of vulva; it is 
needless to say the foal was dead. The trainer was having a 
hook placed in the wall behind the mare, and had triple 
blocks and ropes to tear it away. On making an examination 
I found the foal in anterior presentation, with a vertebro-sac- 
ral position, fore feet and head normal, but the hind feet had 
entered the pelvis beside the shoulder; of course all the pull¬ 
ing he could do would only tighten the wedge-shape mass. I 
cut the foal’s body off close to vulva, leaving enough skin to 
cover the bones; using the repeller, returned the half of the 
body completely turning (performing version), when the 
mare gave birth to the foal in a posterior presentation, lumpo 
pubic position, inside of five minutes, without any help beside 
myself. 
This mare strained so hard after delivery that I gave ext. 
canabis indicus fl. 3 iii, bathed the vulva with hot water with 
creolin in it; mare suffered metritis for a month, then made 
good recovery. / 
Another case where the owner had several men pull a calf 
