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REPORTS OF CASES. 
the calf in the anterior presentation with head turned back. 
The membranes had been broken twenty hours before and the 
vagina was dry and inflamed. Succeeded in straightening the 
head and delivering the calf. Washed out the uterus with 
antiseptic solution, gave a stimulant, and left the cow apparently 
in good condition. About four months later I was called to 
the same place to see a large Jersey bull with nine inches of 
his penis hanging out with dry gangrene. I cast the bull and 
amputated the diseased portion. In trying to find out the 
cause of the bull’s condition, they told me that the day before 
they first noticed it, he was trying to serve the cow that I took 
the calf from. I had the cow brought to me, and found that 
all that part of the vagina between the hymen and the os was 
entirelv grown solid. I told the owner that the cow should be 
killed and buried, as the meat or milk was not fit to use, 
because of absorption of material from the uterus that could 
not escape. He turned her out in a woods where there was 
plenty to eat and drink, but she gradually wasted away and 
died about three months later. The bull could not extend the 
penis, and instead of the urine running down the sheath and 
out the natural opening, it formed a new opening nine inches 
further back. The sheath between the two openings became 
absorbed, the skin drew up smooth over the abdomen like a 
cow. The hairs at the natural opening became shorter and 
finer and those at the new opening became coarser and longer. 
He was slaughtered for beef in fine condition. 
TRAUMATIC SECTION OF FLEXOR METATARSI MUSCLE—SUTURE 
—RECOVERY. 
By W. L. West, V.S., Belfast, Me. 
Jan. 16, 1900, was called fourteen miles into the country to 
see a horse which had been injured by jumping onto a buck 
saw, the blade of which protruded in such a way (through the 
frame) that it made a skin wound in an oblique direction four 
inches above the hock joint, no more than an inch long, but 
which completely severed the flexor metatarsi muscle with no 
perceptible injury to adjacent structures. 
I chloroformed the horse, shaved the parts, and enlarged 
the skin wound ; drew the leg forward and irrigated the wound 
very thoroughly with 1 to 1000 bichloride solution. Meantime 
having had my instruments, sutures and bandages boiled, I su¬ 
tured the tendon, muscles, fascia and skin separately ; dusted 
the wound externally with iodoform sugar and applied muslin 
