164 KENNEL DISEASES. 
To bathe with warm water, dry by gentle pressure with a soft towel, and oil 
the protruding parts, are the first steps. Then with the fingers, also clean and 
well oiled, those parts should be forced back, gentle pressure being used; but 
slowly, that the return may be gradual. 
The meanwhile her fore parts should be on the ground and her hind parts 
elevated. 
The prolapsed parts back into place, it will be advisable to administer an 
astringent vaginal injection, consisting of about two heaping tablespoonfuls of 
tannic acid in one pint of water. Only a little of this need be injected, — merely 
sufficient to drench the internal parts, — and a large glass or hard rubber syringe 
being used, the pint solution should suffice for three or four injections. 
The rule should be to overcome the prolapse by this means as often as it 
is noted, unless it recurs at once. But where it takes place during season only, 
and is slight, interference would scarcely be warranted, for the trouble would 
likely right itself at the end of the period. 
As for frequently recurring prolapse, only a surgical operation promises a 
complete cure. 
VAGINAL POLYPI. 
Polypi of the vagina are pear-shaped tumors, smooth, shining, quite firm to 
the touch, and devoid of sensation. Only in rare instances are they found, and 
in such they almost always form high up in the passage; and their presence is 
only suspected after they have grown quite large, or are of sufficient length to 
allow them to reach the vaginal orifice. They then cause considerable discom- 
fort, and give rise to an irritating discharge. 
Their removal is easily effected, but only he who is skilled in the use of sur- 
gical instruments should undertake it. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB. 
Where a dead puppy is retained and badly decomposed, an inflammation of 
the womb is generally set up. Usually, also, there is blood poisoning or puer- 
peral fever, which by the intensity of its symptoms masks the local trouble. But 
the womb may be inflamed without poisoning, although instances are rare. 
Again, an inflammation may occur in it at other periods than those of whelping, 
the same being produced by sudden chilling, as results from a plunge in very 
cold water; and the danger of this accident from such cause is much the great- 
est during or soon after the mating season, while the womb is naturally somewhat 
