REPORTS OF CASES. 
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OBSTETRICAL CASES. 
By A. W. Hoover, Y.S. 
Give me a little space in The Review to report two singular 
obstetrical cases that came under my observation. I will briefly 
state them while they are fresh in my mind. Sunday, the 5th, 
at noon, I was called to see a mare that had been in labor all the 
forenoon ; was attended to by a non-professional, with no good 
results whatever. Examination revealed a breech presentation 
with a monstrous head lying near the pelvic orifice. The fore¬ 
head was soft and yielding to pressure, as we And in large tumors. 
Around this was a rim ; I can compare it only to an old-fashioned 
corn-meal sieve. In thickness it was one-fourth of an inch by two 
inches wide; in diameter, ten and one-half inches. The knife 
was carried in and the head laid open, letting out the contents; 
the rim was divided and taken out and the head, or remainder of 
it, straightened, the hind legs got into proper position, and deliv¬ 
ery safe and easy. 
Case No. 2 occurred to-day. Just got home and very tired. 
Drove ten miles since one o’clock. This case also had been gram- 
med, and given up, and the midwife gone home to rest and prob¬ 
ably come to a wise conclusion that quackery is neither profitable 
nor honorable. Found all the legs rigidly flexed, as also the neck, 
which lay in the side. This was truly a critical case, and occu¬ 
pied an hour and a half before delivery was accomplished. The 
limbs, as well as the head, had to be amputated. 
IMPACTION OF COLON FOR TWENTY-THREE DAYS. 
By W. H. Gribble, D.V.S. 
The case I now write a description of did not come under 
my own personal observation, but that of a well-known veterin¬ 
ary surgeon of this city, from whom I obtained the facts as I 
give them to you. 
Many of us would call this a large story, but its truth is 
vouched for, not only by the attending surgeon and his assistant, 
but by any member of the Indianapolis Fire Department sta¬ 
tioned at Engine House No. 1. I saw the animal two or three 
