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condition, with a profuse flow of ordinary-colored blood; frequently 

 lying down and getting up, and when on their legs totter up 

 against the side of the stall or box, as though giddy. 



Belladonna 7x. — Extremely excitable, amounting to irritability, 

 pulsation of the carotid arteries distinctly perceptible to the touch; 

 a wild, bounding pulse; the discharge of the blood is very prof use 

 and the color extremely bright, and very unusually hot to the 

 feel; tL'd whites of the eyes wall be streaked with bright-red lines, 

 and th'if pupils distinctly dilated; the mare strains, and in so doing 

 presse.=5 out the walls of the vagina, which appear also of a bright- 

 red color. 



Crocus 2x. — Very useful when the blood is of a dark color and 

 comes away in long strings or stringy clots. 



Hamamelis 6 w'hen the flow of dark-colored venous blood is 

 slow and constant. 



Ipecacuanha^ 3X trituration, 10 grains to a dose. The flow of 

 bright-red blood is full and constant; this may be attended with an 

 effort to vomit, although it is a recognized fact that horses rarely do 

 vomit, and w^hen they do, the ejecta pass through the nostrils and 

 not the mouth, in consequence of a veil of mucous membrane 

 which lies at the back of the mouth and at the entry to thecavit}' 

 known as the pharynx. Nevertheless, cases have been known of 

 horses vomiting, and hence the symptom, if present, should be 

 noted, as it is an important indication for the selection of this drug 

 in conjunction with the other symptoms specified. 



Sabina 2x is a very important remedy in cases of haemorrhage 

 after delivery; its indications are blood dark in color; comes awaj^ 

 in black clots, which float in a thin, watery-sort-of-colored fluid; 

 the discharge is not constant and regular, but it comes away in 

 spurts as the mare strains when the after-pains come on. 



Secale cornutiun 2x. — Blood of a dark color and smells badly; 

 the flow is constant but slow; mare apparently very weak, and 

 takes little or no notice of what is going on around her; the bleed- 

 ing is accompanied by very frequent after-pains, but these do not 

 appear to affect the flow in any marked degree; the mare's exter- 

 nal body temperature is low, and- the expression of the counte- 

 nance gives the impression that she is in constant pain. 



Among the accidents which occasionally result from parturition 

 are inversion (or turning inside out) of the womb and the 



