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titillate the passages and stimulate the womb to contraction. 



3. Give a dose of physic (Glauber or Epsom salts) with aro- 

 matics (ginger, pepper, copaiva, cardamoms^ caraway, etc.). 



4. The most satisfactory method is to remove it by the hand, in 

 twelve to twenty-four hours after parturition, before the neck of 

 the womb has closed so as to forbid the introduction of the arm. 

 In cows the protruding membranes are gently pulled upon by 

 the left hand while the right is introduced into the womb, and 

 the connecting cotyledons or placentuloe of the membranes are 

 one by one squeezed out from their connexions with those of 

 the womb. The process may be slow, as fifty such connexions 

 may demand separation, but patience will be crowned with final 

 success, the great points being to tear nothing and to bring up 

 and separate the last portions as perfectly as the first. 



Prrcention. — In poverty-stricken animals much may often be 

 done by warm sloppy food for a week or two prior to parturition. 



Leucorrh(t:a. Catarrh of the Womb or \'agina. — This 

 often results from retained afterbirth or violence done in par- 

 turition, but may occur independently of both or even in the 

 virgin animal. There is a whitish discharge from the vulva, 

 foetid if from retained afterbirth, with rapid falling off in flesh 

 and milk, in spirit and appetite. The subjects can rarely be 

 impregnated. 



Treatment. — Introduce a catheter into the womb, draw off 

 the contained fluid, wash out with tepid water introduced 

 through the tube, and inject one of the following solutions : i 

 drachm of sulphate of zinc, sulphate of copper, acetate of lead, 

 permanganate of potassa or carbolic acid, or \ drachm chloride 

 of zinc, dissolved in a pint of water and five ounces of glycerine 

 added. This injection should be repeated daily until the 

 discharge ceases. A course of tonics should accompany this 

 treatment (sulphate of iron 2 drachms, pepper i drachm, ginger 

 \ oz., gentian \ oz. daily). 



EvERSioN OF THE Vagina OR WoMH. — The former may 



