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precautions prescribed, will generally lead to the settling of 

 cows which keep on coming in service, and will also prevent 

 abortion. 



Successful results are reported from different districts 

 of the United Kingdom of the administration vipure Caherfs 

 Carbolic Acid, No. 5, as a preventative, to cows in a byre 

 where a case of abortion has occurred. It is either injected 

 subcutaneously by a veterinary surgeon or a trained assistant, 

 or given in the food at first a teaspoonful twice a week. 

 After a cow has got over the disinclination to eat the food, it 

 may be given every second day for weeks till the danger is 

 over ; and the posterior extremities should meanwhile be 

 sprayed with Jeyes' Fluid. Aborted cows should be isolated 

 and disinfected. A simple and satisfactory American method 

 of treatment is worthy of attention in this country : 



" Irrigate the vagina with a lukewarm 3 per cent, solution of 

 permanganate of potash ; then a solution of yeast is injected 

 into the vagina : One cake of compressed yeast is dissolved 

 in a teacupful of water, and allowed to stand to ferment. To 

 this ferment is added from a pint to a pint and a half of water. 

 This is injected into the vagina, and it has a tendency to stop 

 the discharge from the vagina better than any chemical that 

 has so far been used. It also has the great advantage that it 

 does not produce any irritation, which may occur by the 

 strong use of carbolic acid and other disinfectants. This 

 treatment costs only about ijd. per cow ; and it can be 

 adopted without skilled assistance." 



" Pressing," "straining," or "after-pains," producing 

 inversion of the uterus, are very frequent after difficult 

 parturition, being caused by injury to or irritation of the 

 parts involved. The injection of laudanum and carbolic oil 

 carbolic I to 20 6f oil if done early, suffices to allay it. 

 Carbolic oil, used alone in the first tried proportion of I to 7, 

 has been known to increase the irritation where a scratch 

 existed, and to drive the cow almost frantic. 



When total inversion is imminent, a clean sheet (previously 

 soaked in a disinfectant solution) should be stretched behind 

 the cow to receive the uterus, which should then be smeared 

 by the carbolic mixture recommended, and returned into 

 position often a matter of some difficulty, requiring 

 strength as v/ell as skill. Strong anodyne draughts, such as 

 chlorodyne or laudanum in 2-oz. doses, are given to soothe 



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