232 THE FARM DOCTOR. 



occur before parturition or even in the virgin state, the latter 

 only after parturition. Hot, relaxing stables and regimen, and 

 too great a slope of the stalls backward are among the causes 

 of the first, violence in parturition or in the removal of the 

 afterbirth of the second. Digestive and urinary disorders are 

 further causes. The everted vagina forms a simple rounded 

 mass easily dislinguished from the bladder by the absence of 

 the ureters, and from the womb by that of the two divisions of 

 horns, and in the case of ruminants by the cotyledons. Treat- 

 ment is simple : Adjust the slope of the stall, making the 

 hinder part the higher ; obviate costiveness, diarrhoea, or any 

 other source of irritation ; and adjust a rope truss as follows : — 



Fig- 39. — Rope truss for everted womb. 



Take two ropes, each more than double the length of the 

 animal, bend each double and intertwist them at this bend so 

 as to circumscribe an oval opening a little larger than that of the 

 vulva; this having been adjusted to this orifice, the two upper 

 ends are carried around the rump, crossed over each other 

 repeatedly in their passage along the back, and finally tied to a 

 collar previously placed around the neck ; the lower ends are 

 carried down between the thighs, one on each side of the udder, 

 and forward on the sides of the abdomen and chest to be fixed 



