Chapter XI. 

 SOME ACCIDENTS FOLLOWING PARTURITION. 



Post-Partum Hemorrhage — Flooding. 



Hemorrhage from the womb, after parturition, is 

 quite frequently met with in the human subject, but 

 not so often, relatively, in the lower animals. It 

 may be due to the violent rupture of a number of 

 vessels, in a difficult case of labor. It is sometimes 

 seen when adhesions have taken place between the 

 uterus and its membranes. It may also be due to an 

 injury to the walls of the uterus at parturition, or may 

 follow a healthy labor, but involution failing to occur 

 after expulsion of the foetus. 



The symptoms are not always evident. While 

 there is no difficulty in detecting it, should blood 

 escape from the vulva, still, if the animal is standing,, 

 there may be' no escape from the vulva, and only the 

 signs of internal hemorrhage can be seen, which are a. 

 quick, frequent, and fluttering pulse, very weak heart, 

 which may beat irregularly and intermittently ; pale- 

 ness of the visible mucous membranes, general uneasi- 

 ness, shifting from one hind-limb to the other, sighing 

 occasionally, the animal becomes unsteady in her gait, 

 and staggers, respirations much increased, and she- 

 ultimately falls and is unable to rise; a cold perspiration 

 bedews the body, and death is preceded by convulsions^ 



