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REPORTS OF CASES. 
This completed the post-mortem, and I announced my find¬ 
ings to be that of a hypo-sulphite soda poisoning. 
Treatment.—Remove the cause. To the worst cases oleo 
lini i pt. to each was given, followed by light stimulants, with 
orders for a light laxative diet. No further loss was experi¬ 
enced. One or two of the worst cases convalesced slowly. 
CESAREAN SECTION IN COW.* 
By Dr. J. G. Parstow, Shenandoah. Iowa. 
On June the nth last, I received a call from Mr. Peck, a 
near-by farmer to our town, who said he had a two-year-old 
heifer that had been trying for some time to calve, and that he 
was now satisfied she needed my assistance. I prepared for the 
occasion, and drove over. There I found a medium sized grade 
heifer, in fairly good flesh and presenting a healthy appearance. 
She was lying in a shed unable to rise, and very poor sanitary 
conditions surrounding her, none better indoors to be had. 1 
learned she had been laboring some fifteen hours, he offering 
such assistance as he was able to by placing ropes on the two 
feet then presented. 
I made an examination and found those to be the hind feet. 
The pelvic cavity was small, the calf large, plump, and an extra 
well-developed one. To make a normal presentation was be¬ 
yond my power. To remove it through the natural channel was 
impossible without section, and section did not appear practica¬ 
ble in this case. So I suggested removing by the side, though 
giving little hopes of favorable results. Consent was freely 
given, so I prepared to operate. 
The patient was secured by stretching. The right side 
sterilized. Chloroform was administered with instructions to 
assistant how to follow the same. 
I then made opening into abdominal cavity, commencing a 
little below and about midway between the external angle of 
ilium and border of last rib, running downward and slightly 
forward for sixteen inches. The uterus was then punctured 
and the wall divided by force or torn across the superior surface. 
The foetus and membranes were then removed, and the perito¬ 
neal coat of the uterus brought together by means of an unin¬ 
terrupted silk suture. The peritoneum closing the abdominal 
cavity received a like stitch. The outside was closed by means 
* Read before Iowa and Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association, at Omaha, Neb., 
Nov. 29, 1900. 
