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CYCLOPEDIA OF LlVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



IX. When the Foal Is Born Dead, or the After-birth Retained. 



In those cases already referred to, where death and decomposition of the 

 foetus has occurred, or where the after-birth lias been retained and becomes 

 putrid, efiicient antiseptic measures are necessary. After-treatment, such 

 as is so prominent in the physician's practice, following difficult partu- 

 rition, is never thought of in the veterinarian's. However, the copious use 

 of lukewarm vaginal injections of a mild nature, are very requisite in the 

 class of eases we are considering. An ordinary syringe will answer. 

 From one to two quarts of the fluid should be injected into the vagina, 

 whence it will gravitate to the lowest parts, and render harmless the germs 

 accompanying the decomposition. This may be repeated twice a day, for 

 three or four days, by which time its healthy action will have become very 

 apparent. 



UMBILIC COED OF FOAI. 



1. Cutaneous portion of cord. 



2. Amniotic portion of cord. 



X. The UmbilicU Cord of Foal. 

 The umbilic cord must be divided and the last direct relation between 

 the mother and young severed. This division results in a wound which 

 involves the arteries, veins and urachus, each of Avliich communicates with 

 internal parts of the system of the young animal. Different writers assume 

 different attitudes toward the care of the navel of the new-born. Natu- 

 rally, the umbilic cord becomes ruptured in a variety of ways. In the 

 foal the cord is so long (3 feet) that it is usually not ruptured when the 

 fffitus is expelled, if the mare is recumbent, but gives Avay only when she 

 rises to her feet, and even then in some cases not until she turns her head 

 toward the foetus in order to care for it, and in so doing pulls the cord in 



