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This to be alternated every four hours with the previous remedy, 

 and the bowels to be kept loose with Epsom salts in half-pound 

 doses, with two. or three drams of ginger or capsicum, according to 

 size and condition, every twenty-four hours. 



Have the string removed within forty-eight hours, or as soon as 

 the animal ceases straining. 



Among other cases in which Dr. Mc Beth used this treatment, 

 was one that had been treated by a regular veterinary surgeon of 

 excellent standing as a local practitioner, and whose efforts had sig- 

 nally failed, although he had used the most approved treatment. 



Fig. 1091.— Delwarl's Truss. 



The case 'had run some forty-eight hours. In this emergency Dr. 

 Mc B. was called to aid in treating the case, and his method proved 

 entirely successful, the case yielding at once to the treatment^ 



The main feature of the treatment thus employed (that of tying 

 a string across the back) is so peculiar, and so far out of the regukv 

 line, that we have given it in this connection as a matter of specia. 

 interest. 



To avoid a recurrence of the accident of the inversion of the 

 uterus, it is a good . expedient to fill the vagina with a ball of tow, 

 which may be kept in place by the use of the Delwart Truss' (Fig. 

 1091). This truss is formed by cords, united by a loop in the middle 

 of each, in such a manner that an oval space (a, Fig. 1092) sufficient 



