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notification that a copy had been forwarded, it has not been 
received. We hasten, however, to congratulate the publishers 
upon their display of pluck in entering a field already enjoying 
more literature than the material support of the profession of 
the country guarantees. It may be that a journal conducted 
upon different and better lines than those which have held the 
foit for many years will be better appreciated and supported, 
but spurts of special enterprise in veterinary journalism in this 
country have met with such unsatisfactory response as to break 
our faith in the proposition. We wish the new venture every 
possible success, and trust that it may find the path already 
broken a pleasant and profitable one. # 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
OBSTETRIC RECORDS. 
Surgical and Obstetrical Clinic, New York State 
Veterinary College. 
By W. L. Williams, Professor Surgery, etc. 
RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS FOLLOWED BY FATAL SEPSIS (MARE). 
(1680) Patient a common bred bay mare of medium size, 
had completed the ordinary term of pregnancy without incident 
and labor began March 27, this year. 
The owner discovered that proper progress in parturition 
was wanting and inspection revealed an anterior presentation, 
dorsum superiorly with head deviated to one side. 
Becoming alarmed, the owner resorted to force, and with the 
aid of neighbors pulled the foal away (dead), causing an incom¬ 
plete rupture of the perineum, and apparently a severe strain of 
the loins, rendering it extremely difficult for the patient to get 
up, and locomotion almost impossible, besides causing a rupture 
of the uterus, not discoverable during life, which brought on a 
fatal termination. 
The mare was presented at the free clinic on March 30, in a 
