THE DOG IN DISEASE. 



if the bitch has been much exhausted by the labor, or if 

 any source of infection has existed. 



The symptoms are pain, tenderness, possibly a puru- 

 lent or more or less bloody or foul discharge, often irritat- 

 ing, nausea, fever, etc. 



FlG. 18. F(ETUS AND ITS MEMBRANE (FLEMING). 



o, chorion ; 6, zonary placenta ; d, umbilical vesicle ; g, umbilical cord ; 

 h, amnion ; fc, foetal puppy. 



Diagnosis. When the finger is introduced within the 

 vagina toward the womb, indications of tenderness, swell- 

 ing, etc., will suffice to point to the seat of the trouble, and 

 to enable a diagnosis to be made between metritis, cystitis, 

 peritonitis, etc. 



This affection is very apt to be complicated with in- 

 flammation of neighboring parts, especially of the peri- 

 toneum, when the case becomes doubly dangerous. 



