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yellow appearance, and the patient has a peculiar fusty smell. In 

 some cases it is associated with parturient bronchitis or pneumonia 

 (pay. 534). Treatment. — Antiseptic tonic medicines are necessary, 

 such as sulphite of soda, iron, quassia, and vegetable cordials (sec 

 Appendix) given in treacle gruel, with the addition of a quart of beer 

 or half-a-pint of spirit; small doses of linseed oil should also be given 

 every other day, and the appetite tempted with different kinds of food, 

 such as sliced mangold and potato, sprinkled over w^ith a little salt, 

 though grass or other green foods answer the best. Frequent washing 

 out of the womb in these cases is very objectionable, for, in my opinion, 

 it retards recovery. 



792. Post-Partum Haemorrhage, or flooding after calving, is 

 mostly seen at the first calving, and is generally due to too hast}^ and 

 rough usage (see Parturition, Plate XLI., fig. 1). This dangerous, and 

 often fatal haemorrhage, requires prompt attention ; the animal must 

 be kept perfectly quiet, and cold water sheets applied to the loins and 

 quarters ; if the bleeding is profuse, a cotton bed-sheet must be put 

 into a pail of cold water — to which has been added one ounce of 

 tincture of iron — -and after being wrung partly out, it should be packed 

 carefully and quietly into the vaginal passage, and left there for three 

 or four days, or until it comes away by itself; at the same time 

 five or six eggs beaten up in half-a-pint of whiskey or brandy, in one 

 pint cold water, should be given every five or six hours. In many 

 cases, after the bleeding has stopped, the animal will go on doing well, 

 feeding, chewing the cud, milking, &c., for about twelve or fourteen 

 days, when the bleeding may break out again, and before anything 

 can be done, the patient bleeds t6 death. The greatest care and 

 watchfulness is therefore needed from the tenth to the twentieth day. 



793. Rupture of the Womb (mostly seen in the mare). — -This 

 may occur from the strong labour pains of the mare, forcing the foot 

 of the foetus through the walls, or the womb may be torn and ruptured 

 in manipulating a mal-presentation of the foetus, when the bowels of 

 the parent sometimes protrude. These cases are usuall}' fatal. 

 Again, one of the fore-feet of the foetus may be so forced through the 



