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For this purpose the animal was thrown on the left side, and 
tlie operation of saparatomy performed in the hollow of the right 
flank, at an equal distance from the external angle of the hip to 
the last rib, following the rules laid down by Prof. Degire. 
The muscles being carefully dissected, and the abdomen 
opened, some five or six liters of citrine serosity escaped, while 
about the same quantity remained in the abdomen. The hand 
being then introduced into the cavity, the invaginated intestinal 
• part was easily detected, forming a cylindrical tumor, curved 
lengthwise, on the insertion of the mesentery, its external surface 
of a dark red color, its largest diameter measuring 30 centimetres. 
On one side the intestinal canal is distended by gases, but the 
other is quite free from flatulence. 
The invaginated parts having contracted adhesions with the 
other, it became impossible to separate the two portions, and a 
laceration of the coats of the organ having followed an attempt to 
effect a separation, there remained but the resection of the diseased 
parts, and the sewing of the two ends together. Two cuts of the 
scissors divided the intestines, at points where the tissues seem 
healthy, great care being taken that none of the contents of the 
intestinal canal escape into the abdominal cavity. The mesenteric 
attachments are carefully torn, without hemorrhage, and the two 
ends of intestines brought together, resting on each oilier on the 
serous layer, and stitched with a curved needle, by a tailor’s 
suture, involving the external and middle layer. The intestines 
were then carefully washed, and replaced in the cavity. A quill 
suture completed the operation in closing the external wound. 
The two intestinal cylinders thus removed were both in an ad¬ 
vanced state of gangrene. The entire length of the resected 
organ measures 0.90 centimetres. 
Slight fever followed for a few days. On the second day the 
animal passed liquid foecal matter; on the fifth she ruminated ; 
on the seventh defecation was normal; on the eighth the stitches 
in the skin were changed to an interrupted suture; thirty-five 
days after the operation the recovery was complete. 
When she was slaughtered by the butcher, after falling, the 
abdomen showed a small fibrous cord, about three centimetres 
long, uniting the intestines and the abdominal walls, where the 
