CONDITIONS FOLLOWING PARTURITION. I 2 I 



are : wine, essence of turpentine, ammonia carbonate, 

 brandy and dilute alcoliol. These medicines are 

 recommended to be given in the shape of clysters. 

 The most used external stimulants, are frictions with 

 turpentine, camphorated oil, oil of mustard, croton oil, 

 diluted ammonia, etc.; and frictions of stibiated oint- 

 ment (i : 4), cold and warm compresses, cold douches 

 upon the head, the application of Mayor's hammer 

 along the spinal cord, taking care to cover the skin 

 with a woolen cloth, etc. Some veterinarians have 

 used electi-icity with advantage. Bleeding has been 

 found useful in some cases, and valueless in others. 



" We should use drastics to combat the cessation of 

 intestinal peristalsis, those which likewise act as 

 derivatives upon the digestive canal, such as eserine, 

 tartar emetic, croton oil (in mucilaginous decoction), 

 sulphate of soda, etc. Injections, or a rectal exploration, 

 frequently repeated, and the manual extraction of fsecal 

 matters, have a similar action to that of these agents. 



"Spasms and general excitement should be combated 

 by morphine injections, injections of chloral hydrate, 

 inhalations of chloroform, etc." 



Personally, I have had good results from the 

 administration of a saline purgative (if deglutition was 

 not impaired), or the hypodermic injection of sulphate 

 of eserine, followed by nux vomica in diluted alcohol,, 

 orally, or liquor strychnia, subcutaneously ; extraction: 

 of faecal matters, also any retained membrane, and 

 enemas ; puncturing the rumen ; catheterization of the 

 bladder; cutaneous stimulation by the application of 

 diluted acetic acid or vinegar ; the body covered with 



