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REPORTS OF CASES. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner , but his skill dies with him. By 
recording his observations , he adds to the knowledge of his profession , and assists by his 
facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science. 
A NOVEL METHOD OF RETAINING AN EVERTED UTERUS. 
By J. A. McCrank, D. V. S., Plattsburg, N. Y. 
What appears to me to be a novel treatment for eversion of 
the uterus came to my attention lately ; since then I am at a 
loss what to do about the matter, if I should do anything. 
On June 18th of this year, a lady called at my office, asking 
me to go out about ten miles in the mountains to see a cow, 
which had been ailing for some time, and no one could under¬ 
stand her trouble. All the smart men in the district had visi¬ 
ted her, and treated her, but all to no purpose. I went out, and 
found a cow standing in a meadow close to the house, where 
she could be watched and fed. She was very much emaciated; 
her eyes were sunken; she had not chewed her cud for some 
time ; her back was arched, and there was a purulent discharge 
from her vulva, and she laid a great part of the time. 
History .—The cow belonged to a widow lady and her maiden 
daughter, sole inhabitants of the homestead, and I being a bloom¬ 
ing, bashful, blushing bachelor, ’twas no easy task to get a his¬ 
tory of the case; but, after many vain efforts, I found out that 
the cow had dropped a calf about five weeks previous, and a few 
hours afterward sh£ everted the uterus. Mr. G., a charlatan in 
the district, whose ignorance far overbalances his good or moral 
senses, was called. He replaced the uterus, but the cow has 
been ailing ever since. Now, I was worse off than ever. Could 
he have punctured the uterus? Did he injure the uterus? and 
would an injury cause such debility? I was now at bay. I 
drove the cow to the barn, and passed my hand into the rectum, 
when I felt a hard irregularly shaped lump on or about the 
neck of the uterus. Next I passed my hand per vagina, and 
felt the same, but on manipulating to find what I had it dropped 
out of reach. Passed hand per rectum again, and felt the body 
deep in the abdominal cavity. My conclusion was that it was 
a tumor on the left horn of the uterus due to an injury. 
At this moment a neighbor came to the barn, and I told him 
what I had found. He woke up to the cause of the trouble only 
now, for he helped to return the uterus. He said : “ Mr. G. 
returned the uterus, and placed a stone in the cavity to prevent 
