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and as readily relieved by plunging a knife through the 

 membranes and evacuatiag the liquid. 



"Wateb in the abdomen is equally frequent and to be 

 obviated in a similar manner. 



DISOEDEES FOLLOWING PAETUEITION. 



Flooding. Bleeding from the walls of the womb. 

 Mostly after a too hasty parturition in which the uterine 

 walls are exhausted and fail to contract; or when the 

 womb has suffered violence in extraction of the foetus. 



Symptoms. Bloodless pallor of the mucous membranes, 

 coldness of the surface, weakness, weak pulse, with or 

 without palpitation of the heart and discharge of blood 

 from the vulva. The hand introduced into the womb 

 finds that organ soft, flaccid, dilated and filled with hquid 

 or clotted blood. 



Treatment. Apply cold water or bags of ice to the loins 

 and external genital organs, remove the afterbirth and 

 clots with the hand and, if necessary, inject cold water, 

 acids (vinegar, dilute mineral acids,) astringents (sugar of 

 lead, tannia, matico, alum,) into the womb, and give small 

 doses of acetate of lead or ergot of rye by the mouth. In 

 desperate cases a large sponge soaked in tincture of the 

 muriate of iron may be introduced into the womb and 

 emptied by squeezing. If the patient is sinking it may 

 often be saved by transfusion of blood from another 

 animal. 



Eetained Atterbirth. Causes. Premature parturition, 

 poverty of condition, too hurried delivery and failure to 

 establish subsequent contractions, adhesions, the result of 

 pre-existing inflammation in the womb, etc. 



If not removed it rots away piecemeal, a portion remain- 

 ing and putrefying in the womb, causing irritation, dis- 

 charge, rapid loss of condition and milk and in some cases 

 absorption of putrid matter and poisoning. 



Treatment. Various methods are followed. 1. Attach 

 a pound weight to the mass, so that the constant tugging 



