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three times per diem, and habitually do so by means of a 
syringe of capacity 100—150 grammes, with a short canula, 
whereby no injury is inflicted on the mucous membrane 
opposite the opening. The duration of treatment varies from 
twenty-five to thirty-five days. Since my entry into the 
company I have radically cured five cases by this means, 
which has the following advantages:—(1) It gives a rapid 
and complete cure. (2) The animal can be used through¬ 
out the whole time of treatment, (o) Unsightly wounds are 
avoided. (4) The operation is very simple, and does not 
necessitate throwing the animal. (5) This treatment may 
be easily performed, even by one man, if he takes care to 
put on the fixed switch. (6) The cure having been effected, 
the work of cicatrization takes place more easily than does 
healing of the parts after removal of a portion of bone; for 
in the latter case the process of reparation of bone causes 
irritation of the subjacent mucous membrane.In the Revue 
Veterinaire for April, 1880, is a paper by M. Molinie, of 
Lavaur, “ On the Use of a Bottle as a Pessary in Cases of 
Prolapsus of the Vagina and Uterus.” He says: “A great 
number of pessaries, more or less complicated in their cha¬ 
racters, are made use of by practitioners in cases of prolapsus 
uteri, to oppose a fresh displacement of the organ after they 
have been returned to their normal position. These are not 
always to hand when they are required, and are open to other 
objections, which have been indicated by various authors. 
They irritate the generative organs, cause violent expulsive 
efforts, and often cause return of the accident they are de¬ 
signed to prevent. The use of the bottle is open to none of 
these objections, and I have always obtained the best results 
from it. It is in order to recall attention of veterinarians to 
this old and now neglected method that I have thought 
it right, through the Revue , to make known my method of 
procedure. Reduction of the vagina and uterus having been 
accomplished, I apply the cord bandage which is used by 
almost all the practitioners of the middle of France. The 
cords of the bandage having been well stretched, I chose a 
bottle of the Bordeaux form, to the neck of which I fix a 
band of sufficiently strong thread, having two ends of the 
length of about 6—8 in. each. The bottle having been 
inserted into the vagina, I find the point of the cords which 
corresponds to the transverse diameter of the vulvar opening 
and fix there the bands around the neck of the bottle. An 
assistant untwists one of the cords to the point indicated, and 
by means of a peg of wood he assists the passage of an 
end of the band of thread. The opposite cord is corre- 
