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Condy's fluid, or chinosol, may be tried, the system being 

 kept up with iron and other tonics. The chief difficulty to 

 be contended with is that the os uteri is generally so far 

 closed that no enema nozzle, not even a probe or catheter, 

 can be passed through it. This can be obviated to some 

 extent by the use of extract of belladonna smeared around the 

 OS, and by warm continuous injections for about ten minutes 

 before the attempt is made to insert the enema-tube. 



It is almost impossible, even in a large dog, to cleanse 

 the interior of each horn so completely that the fluid will 

 not accumulate again. Ovaro-hysterectomy, as below men- 

 tioned, should be advised in the early stages, and if the 

 patient is not already much emaciated and in a state of 

 collapse, a favourable Prognosis may be given. ^ 



Hysterectomy and Ovaro-hysterectomy, 



By the term hysterectomy is meant the removal of the 

 entire uterus, and the term ovaro-hysterectomy is employed 

 when the ovaries are also included. 



This operation is occasionallj' performed upon a healthy 

 animal for the same purpose as oophorectomy, with equally 

 satisfactory results ; it is necessary in those cases of purulent 

 metritis in which the uterus becomes filled with foetid 

 fluid (see above). It is also valuable in cases of dystokia,^ 

 or where dystokia is to be feared, as when the female of 

 some small breed has become pregnant by the male of some 

 larger variety. In the latter cases, if the patient has not 

 become exhausted by labour pains, the results are excellent 

 — indeed, so satisfactory that the author usually advises 

 that it shall be performed as soon as pregnancy is assured 

 in all cases in which the bitch is not required for stud 



' Veterinary Record, February, 1901 (Ridler and Hobday). 



" Torsion of the pregnant uterus is occasionally met with. Such a case 

 has been recorded by M. Bonnet in the. Journal dc Lyons for January 31, 

 1905 (translated in the Veterinary News, April 29, 1905). 



