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Post mortem .—The abdomen being opened, there escaped a 
large quantity of gas of a very disagreeable odor of putrefaction. 
About twenty to thirty liters of brown, wine color fluid, mixed 
with some clots of blood, were removed. All the digestive organs 
were normal. The peritoneum was much congested, this condi¬ 
tion increasing from forward backward, and reaching its maximum 
near the pelvis; there, also, it was thicker, and on the side of the 
intestines offered on its internal face five bloody, floating clots, 
from fifteen to twenty centimeters in length, and adherent by 
one of their extremities. The peritoneum being loosened behind, 
showed in the intestinal mass a female foetus, all bloated, crepita¬ 
ting, the legs coming easily apart at the seat of articulation. The 
nails dropped off almost of themselves, one of them even floating 
in the liquid of the abdomen. The extremity of one hind leg 
was turned toward the neck of the uterus. The foetus was not 
covered by its placenta, which remained adherent to the cotyledon, 
but was by the umbilical cord. I cut the cord, and brought the 
foetus out of the abdomen. The uterus was torn from five or 
six centimeters from the neck to the extremity of the horn, in 
which the foetus was lodged. This tear was about straight, and 
followed the inferior border, or rather the lower plan of the 
uterus, and continued in that manner, following the small curva¬ 
ture or concave border of the right horn. The borders of the 
wound were oue centimeter thick, of well marked brownish color, 
which did not disappear by washing. The placenta was in an 
advanced state of putrefaction, and still adhered to some of the 
cotyledons. The neck of the uterus, vagina and left horn were 
in perfect condition .—Archives Veterinaires. 
FCETAL DISTOCIA. 
Ascitis-Cirrhosis of Venous Origin, MiTral and TiucusriD Enpocartis. 
Very Large Pilars of the Left Ventricle. 
By M. Nocard. 
A cow, six years old, having had several calves, being at term, 
veterinary attendance was secured. She had been in labor 12 
hours, and during that time had been in the hands of farmers’ 
