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aspect ; but however painful it may be to look at, there 

 seems to be but little suffering attending it. The animal 

 permits it to be freely handled, and does not resist even 

 when sharp dressings are applied. 



In such cases cleanliness is to be strictly observed. If 

 the protruded membrane should be thickened and exco- 

 riated, it must be well washed with a sponge and warm 



THE BULL-DOG. 



water. Afterwards it may be bathed with a lotion, (made 

 of nitric acid one drachm, to proof-spirit one ounce,) and 

 then returned. A cold injection, composed of alum one 

 drachm, dissolved in spring water one pint, may be used 

 thrice daily ; and from a quarter of a grain to a grain of 

 powdered gallic acid may be given three times a-day. 



The inversion of the womb is more serious ; but it is 

 generally more speedily restored. In the larger animals, 

 that produce one or two young at a time, the uterus is 

 commonly inverted subsequent to parturition ; but in the 

 dog I have known it only when the womb had for some 



