Puerperal] 2 3" [Puerperal 



Give the dog worm medicine, also a course of 

 arsenic, from one 1 to six drops of liquor arsenicalis 

 P. B. in water twice a day after food. The dose 

 may be doubled a week later. This medicine 

 should be continued for about a fortnight, but 

 should it cause vomiting, diarrhoea, or loss of 

 appetite, it is at once to be discontinued. 



Puerperal Fever: 



Symptoms : It may occur three or four days after 

 pupping — commences with an attackof shivering — 

 the temperature rises probably to 105, the pulse is 

 quiet and weak. There is great thirst and vomit- 

 ing, and perhaps diarrhoea. The discharge from 

 vagina ceases, and the secretion of milk stops. 

 The abdomen is distended and painful. 



Treatment : Give a large dose of salicylate of 

 quinine, from two x to ten grains made into a pill, 

 or put in a cachet. Apply hot linseed-meal 

 poultices to abdomen. Well wash the womb 

 out with a solution of perchloride of mercury, 1 in 

 2,000 — that is, one grain to about every four ounces 

 of warm water. Of this solution use about two 

 ounces for a small bitch, and half a pint for a 

 large one. About two minutes after injecting the 

 solution of mercury, wash the womb well out with 

 plain warm water, using from four 1 ounces to a 

 pint. The syringing may be repeated in twelve 

 hours. When the mercury is not at hand, a 

 saturated solution of boracic acid may be used, 

 or one of permanganate of potash, one grain 

 to each ounce of water. 



To wash the womb out properly, a clean 

 1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



