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when one morning, nine days after the accident, she was found 
dead in her stall early in the morning. At the post-mortem 
lacerations of the paniculns, mastoido-humeralis, and great 
pectoral muscles were found ; the whole leg was much infil¬ 
trated ; the muscles between the leg and the chest were all 
filled with clots of decomposed blood, the anterior circumflex 
artery, the external collateral of the elbow and their veins had 
been lacerated with the shaft, and finally the subscapular ar¬ 
tery and that of the great dorsal with their veins had also been 
lacerated. All those blood vessels had been plugged at the 
time of the accident ; they had been temporarily closed by a 
clot of blood, but by degrees this clot had become resorbed or 
loose, and the fatal haemorrhage had returned.—( fourn. de Zo'd- 
t e chme .) 
Laceration of the Uterus—Recovery [By G. Petit]. 
—Although not due to deliver for two weeks to come, a Nor¬ 
mandy cow is taken with violent colic, accompanied by expul¬ 
sive efforts. Vaginal examination revealed a posterior presen¬ 
tation in luinbo-sacral position, and also a deep laceration of the 
uterus, some io centimetres long, situated on a level with the 
right hock of the foetus. The intestinal circumvolutions were 
readily felt through the laceration. The tendo-Achilles of the 
right hock was divided and the tibia being extended upon the 
femur, the removal of the foetus was easily completed. The 
uterine cavity was made aseptic by plugs of iodoformed cotton 
and a drench of tincture of caramija and coffee was administered 
to stimulate the expulsion of the placenta and tonify the ani¬ 
mal. No other treatment was prescribed, except solution of 
cresyl to keep the outside clean. In 12 days the recovery 
was complete .—(Revue Vetennairei) 
Three Attacks of Parturient Apoplexy in a Cow— 
[By M. Ben ].—This is the record of a cow which was succes¬ 
sively taken in 1894, 1895, and 1897 with parturient apoplexy. 
In the first two instances she was treated with general bleeding, 
frictions of camphorated alcohol on the loins, of mustard 011 
the abdomen and the extremities, with injections of lysol solu¬ 
tions in the uterus and rectal injections of sulphate of soda. 
At the third attack the author resorted to the treatment of Har- 
tinstein, cold applications 011 the loins and on the head, bleeding 
at the tail, lysol injections in the uterus, sodse sulphate enemas, 
mustard frictions on the extremities and on the abdomen. 
After a few days she was convalescent, and exhibited symptoms 
of pneumonia, from which she recovered after some time. She 
