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to the collar. It may be made as tight as seems necessary and 

 will tighten with every effort at straining, so that eversion 

 becomes impossible. It may be made more secure by attach- 

 ing the ropes to a surcingle as well. This truss must of course 

 be removed when true labour-pains come on. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB. 



Cause?. — Laceration^ bruises, and other injuries in parturition 

 or in the removal of the afterbirth, exposure to cold or wet after 

 parturition, retained afterbirth, etc. 



Sym/>/onis.— Two or three days after parturition a shivering 

 fit, colicky pains, looking at abdomen, plaintive cries, twisting 

 of the tail, shifting of the hind feet, tenderness of loins and 

 abdomen, arching of the loins, vulva red and swollen, frequent 

 straining with frctid discharge, the har^d introduced into the 

 womb finds both its neck and body dilated with fluid contents, 

 the belly becomes tense and swollen, there is grinding of the 

 teeth, insatiable thirst, and loss of power over the limbs. 

 The pulse and respiration are accelerated, and the temperature 

 of the body raised. It may end in poisoning of the blood with 

 pus ur absorbed putrid matters, or in gangrene, or if recovery 

 ensues it may be perfected in two or three weeks. Peritonitis 

 and enteritis frequently coexist and are equally fatal at this 

 period. 



Treaiment— Wash out the womb, as in leucorrhoea, with 

 chlorine water or a solution of chloride of lime, permanganate 

 of potassa or carbolic acid, adding a solution of gum Arabic, 

 glycerine, and laudanum, to render it more soothing. Give an 

 active purgative (in the cow sulphate of soda i lb.) and follow 

 this up by tincture of aconite four times a day, and nitrate of 

 potassa and chlorate of potassa once daily. A blister should be 

 applied to the right flank (mustard and oil of turpentine in cow 

 or sow, mustard alone for other animals). In case of prostra- 

 tion, weak pulse, stupor, etc., a free use of wine, quinine, cam- 



