6o2 ACCIDENTS INCIDENTAL TO PARTURITION 



Various other trusses for the Mare or Cow have been proposed by 

 veterinary obstetrists, but in principle they are all the same. We need 

 only notice one of these, which has been proposed by Lund, a Danish 

 veterinary surgeon, and which has been greatly lauded by Dieterichs and 

 others for its cheapness, simplicity, and efficiency. The chief part of it 

 is a narrow piece of iron, nine millimetres thick (about one-third to three- 

 eighths of an inch), welded at its extremities, and turned into a triangular 

 shape that enables it to include the vulva, while the loops at its three 

 corners allow it to receive cords (fig. 204). The base of the triangle, 

 which fits under the tail, is about two to two and a half inches wide, and 

 the sides from five to seven inches long. The loopholes at the angles 

 may be replaced by small hooks to receive the cords. 



Fig. 204. 

 Lund's Truss Iron. 



This metal plate, which may be round iron, and convex on one side, 

 concave oti the other, fits over the vulva and the base to the tail, the 

 apex being below the lower commissure, while the convex side is towards 

 the animal. Cords pass through the loops or around the hooks, one 

 above, another below — as in figure 205 — and are fastened to a surcingle 

 or collar, or both, like the preceding trusses. Any blacksmith can make 

 the plate in a few minutes ; and from what has been said in praise of this 

 cheap and simple method of retaining the uterus, there can be no doubt 

 that it will be found most useful. 



All these trusses are intended for the larger animals, and cannot well 

 be applied to the smaller creatures, with the exception perhaps of Lund's 

 plate, which, much diminished in size and made of a piece of strong iron 

 wire, might be serviceable for the Ewe, Sow, Goat, or large Bitch. For 

 these smaller animals Rainard recommends a triangular bandage, made 

 by folding a piece of strong cloth in a triangular manner. The base of 

 this triangle lies over the loins, is carried down by the flanks to beneath 

 the abdomen, where the corners are tied together; while the point of the 

 triangle is passed over the croup and, vulva — a hole being made for the 

 tail to pass through, and another for the anus, brought between the hind- 



