172 KENNEL DISEASES. 
Corrosive sublimate is the agent to be used, and in solution with water in 
the proportion of 1 to 2,000. 
This remedy may be obtained of druggists in the form of tablets, with full 
directions as to the quantity of water in which each should be dissolved to 
make the solution of the right proportion. 
The best instrument for its application is a “fountain syringe.” This filled 
with the solution, heated to not less than 105° F. and not over 115° F.,—a 
thermometer invariably used, —a little of the fluid being allowed to run out by 
the tube, that all the air may be expelled, the tip or nozzle should be gently 
inserted in the passage to the uterus, as far as it will go, and the injection 
allowed to flow until it comes away as colorless as it entered, the syringe being 
refilled as many times as necessary. 
The next step is to wash away all that remains of the disinfecting solution, 
for the corrosive sublimate is an intense poison and might be absorbed. But 
all danger of that can be obviated by a copious injection of water, which must 
always be as hot as the solution first used. 
This having been administered, if the water injected has returned with quite 
an offensive odor, still another injection should follow ; and that should consist 
of one or two cupfuls of carbolic solution, made by dissolving one drachm of 
carbolic acid crystals in a pint of water, the latter being of the same degree 
of temperature as the other injections. 
During the first day and until improvement is noted, these injections should 
be repeated once in every six or eight hours. And after each the patient should 
be gently lifted onto clean dry bedding. 
Laymen might administer the injections, but it were infinitely better that 
they be intrusted to the family physician, for the reason that he can make them 
intra-uterine, and thus attain the greatest possible effect. 
He will wisely attach a gum elastic catheter or piece of small rubber tubing 
to the nozzle of the syringe, and carry the same to the top of the womb. And 
this operation he should find as easy as in his own practice. 
A speculum will not be required, for the os uteri can be made out, it being 
a finger’s length from the vulva in bitches of large breeds. 
Thorough disinfection of the vaginal canal and womb is essential in all 
cases of septic as well as putrid infection, for, as already urged, it is by this 
gateway that the trouble enters ; and while the results of such treatment would 
be most beneficial in the latter, in cases of the former there would doubtless be 
some germs yet unabsorbed, and manifestly they should be destroyed or washed 
away. It is obvious, moreover, that could this treatment be applied in the be- 
ginning of septic infection it would prove quite as efficacious as in the putrid form. 
Recurring to the injunction to use a disinfectant in all cases whether or not 
there is infectious material in the womb, it is again urged that were any such 
material therein it should first be removed; for but little can be expected of the 
