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hernia little below the cord of the left flank. The animal did well 
for seven days, but showing some unpleasant symptoms, the ban¬ 
dage was removed and gangrenous complications towards the seat 
of the application of the pad were discovered. The hernia had 
entirely disappeared. Though these complications were treated 
at once, the symptoms increased in character, and the animal died 
48 hours afterwards. At the post mortem, an adhesive inflam¬ 
mation uniting the edges of the wound of the different layers of 
the abdominal walls was discovered, the cicatrix showing already a 
sufficient strength to resist the pressure of the fingers. 
The conclusions of the author are. 1. That a large ventral 
hernia may be radically cured. 2. That it is not necessary that 
the reductions and the application of the bandage should take 
place immediately, (in that case it was not put on until three days 
after the accident.) 3. That the work of repair goes on rapidly, 
and that therefore it is not necessary to have an apparatus in po¬ 
sition for a long time.—(Rec. Medic. Yeter.) 
AMPUTATION OF THE UTERUS IN A COW. 
A cow afflicted with a complete prolapsus uteri presented the 
following symptoms : an enormous, blackish ovoid mass, exhaling 
a very offensive odor, protruded through the vulva and hung down 
to the hocks : it was the uterus. Its size was about three times as 
large as normal, the mucous membrane dark and thickened, here 
and there, covered with dirt and manure. 
Being washed carefully, it showed gangrenous condition of its 
walls quite extensively; the tissues soften and infiltrated with 
foetid serosity and easily torn. The reduction being impossible? 
amputation was decided upon. An elastic cord, of the size of a 
fishing line, was used and applied at the base of the tumor with 
several twists round the whole mass. 48 hours afterwards, the 
hanging mass was excised some three inches from the ligature and 
the uterine stump was drawn in the pelvis. A purulent discharge 
kept up for several weeks afterwards, and then stopped. The cow 
kept on milking for fourteen months afterwards.—(Journal de 
Zootechnie). 
