232 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



course of tonics should accompany this treatment (sul- 

 phate of iron 2 drachms, pepper 1 drachm, ginger | 

 oz., gentian |- oz. daily. 



EvEESiON OF THE Vagina oe Womb. The former may oc- 

 cur before parturition or even in the virgin state, the lat- 

 ter only after parturition. Hot, relaxing stables and regi- 

 men and too great a slope of the stalls backward are among 

 the causes of the first, violence ia parturition or in the 

 removal of the afterbirth, of the second. Digestive and 

 urinary disorders are further causes. The everted va- 

 gina forms a simple rounded mass easily .distinguished 



Fig. 39 



Fig. 39 — Rope truss for everted womb. 



from the bladder by the absence of the ureters, and from 

 the womb by that of the two divisions or horns, and in the 

 case of ruminants by the cotyledons. Treatment is simi)le : 

 Adjust the slope of the stall, making the hinder part the 

 higher ; obviate costiveness, diarrhoea or any other source 

 of irritation ; and adjust a rope truss as follows : Take 

 two ropes, each more than double the length of the ani- 

 mal, bend each double and intertwist them at this bend so 

 as to circumscribe an oval opening a little larger than that 

 of the vulva ; this having been adjusted to this orifice the 

 two upper ends are carried around the rump, crossed ovci 



