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drench, No. 3. Inject astringents, No. 1 or 2, to which 

 a £-pint of water is added. The antiseptic fluid, No. 1, 

 2, or 3, will be also required to repress the tendency to 

 putrid infection, a common cause of trouble in these 

 cases. 



Leucorrhcka, or Chronic Vaginitis, consists of the 

 discharge of a white, glutinous, and odourless discharge 

 from the walls of the vagina, as the result of a morbid 

 condition. As long as it continues the animal is under 

 an inordinate excitement unfavourable to health and 

 natural pregnancy ; besides, the disease may by extension 

 involve the uterus, and tedious complication will be the 

 result. 



Treatment. — There is seldom any fever. The tendency 

 is towards debility and want of tone. The bowels should 

 be opened by aperient, No. 1, to which 2 oz. of the tinc- 

 ture of gentian has been added. Allow good food, as 

 cleaned roots, with crushed oats, with which tonic pow- 

 ders, 1 or 2, may be given. As a dressing for the vagina 

 use the astringent lotion advocated for vaginitis. 



Inflammation of the Womb — Metritis. — This disease 

 follows parturition, as a result of peculiar conditions, 

 state of health, &c, and sometimes in connection with 

 protracted cases. There is also a tendency to involve the 

 lining membrane of the abdomen, the peritoneum when 

 is given to it the name metro-peritonitis. The distin- 

 guishing peculiarity is the great tendency which exists 

 to contract septic or putrid conditions of the blood. 

 Fatal terminations are, therefore, common. 



The disease is developed at variable periods; late 

 attacks, as a rule, are more favourable for recovery. It 

 commences with rigors, unequal surface heat, swollen 

 genitals, small, hard, and frequent pulse, with increase of 

 respiration and animal temperature ; the lacteal and 

 other secretions are diminished, the udder becoming 

 small and flaccid, membranes injected, mouth hot and 

 dry, or covered with a viscid slime. Colicky pains come 

 on, sometimes attended with lameness, when the animal 

 refuses to lie, but she stands with arched back, fixed legs, 

 refusing to be moved. The genitals are now intensely 



