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foaling, yet the morbid poison must have estabhshed its action on the 

 foetus, which may be expelled before its time, or it may go up to or over 

 the full period of gestation. In such cases the foal, although seemingly 

 fully developed, is usually still born, or it dies within a few seconds 

 after birth. The placenta or after-birth, is expelled immediately after 

 foaling, and, as a rule, is of an unhealthy drab or grey colour. Within 

 20 or 30 hours after parturition the mare commences to be ill, and 

 shows somewhat similar symptoms to simple metritis {pav. 799). 

 Treatment — First inject the womb as in par. 799, and give small 

 doses of aperient and antiseptic medicine, such as hyposulphite of 

 soda, in two ounce doses, every eight hours, dissolved in water, and 

 given as a drench, — supplemented with one drachm doses of sulphate 

 of quinine, dissolved in ten drops of strong hydrochloric acid, given 

 every eight hours in cold hay tea to drink, or in one pint of cold water 

 as a drench. Good nutritive, and easily digestible food — green food if 

 it can be procured — must be given. Sometimes these cases become 

 complicated, and turn into pyaemia, when large abscesses form in 

 various parts of the body. After a case of septic metritis all in-foal 

 mares on or near the premises should at once be removed to other 

 quarters which are not less than two miles distant ; while the buildings 

 and utensils should be thoroughly washed and disinfected. Mares 

 recovering from this malady should not be put to breeding for at 

 least 12 months. 



Sot. Simple Metritis in the Cow shows the following Symptoms, 

 viz. : — Great dullness, prostration, quick breathing, fever, straining, 

 swelling of the external genital organs, and discharge of a dirty 

 brown, blood-coloured fluid, from the passage. Treatment. — If, 

 on careful manual examination, no rupture or rent in the womb is 

 discovered, wash it out by means o: an enema syringe, with warm 

 water and fluid sanitas, or phenyle, in the proportion of one to 80 of 

 water. Internally, give 15 to 20 ounces of raw linseed oil, and if much 

 pain be manifested, add from half to one wine-glassful of laudanum, 

 or 15 drops of Fleming's tincture of aconite. As a fever medicine, two 

 to three ounces of Epsom salts, and three drachms of nitrate of potash 

 in a mash of bran, or in water as a draught, may be given every eight 



