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period been unimpregnated. Blows may cause it ; so also 

 may excessive weakness ; and the earlier it is attended 

 to, the more readily will it be restored. The treatment 

 is described in the following narrative, which was pub- 

 lished by me in the Veterinarian. 



" I began by having a soft clean cloth spread upon a 

 table, and, placing the dog on this, with a sponge the 

 uterus was gently moistened. No friction was employed, 

 but with tepid water the part was carefully sopped. This 

 process was not quick. An hour and a half expired be- 

 fore all the extraneous matter was by it removed. This 

 accomplished, with a pair of scissors the fibrinous tumors 

 were snipped off. The hemorrhage was trivial ; but 

 there yet remained marks of bruises and signs of lacera- 

 tion which could not be cut away. To these a spirituous 

 solution of nitric acid a drachm to the ounce was 

 applied, and the entire of the exposed surface dressed 

 with it. 



" Knowing the peculiar form of tile passage, I was 

 able to return the womb, and met with little obstruction. 

 Up to this point I had succeeded better than at first I 

 hoped ; but here came the difficulty. The uterus was 

 replaced, but how was it to be retained ? The irritability 

 of the system would have a natural tendency to reject 

 the viscus, and the lotion I had used was not of a sooth- 

 ing quality. To render the case more desperate, there 

 was the knowledge of the temperament and habits of the 

 animal its manner of sitting its mode of curving the 

 spine to void its faeces the marked excitability of its 

 generative organs and its peculiar sensitiveness to suf- 

 fering. 



" To own the truth, I had done so much more than, 



