■i Veterinary Obstetrics 



dangers and diseases occurring in the process of reproduction in 

 domestic animals and our means for avoiding or overcoming them. 

 Under this conception we necessarily include : 



1. A study of the anatomy of all those organs having a vital 

 relation to the act of reproduction either directly or indirectly : 

 Obstetric Anatomy. 



2. A study of the physiologic functions of the reproductive 

 organs, including such phenomena as sexual desire or estrum, 

 ovulation, menstruation, copulation, fecundation, the origin and 

 development of the fetus and the birth of the young : Obstetric 

 Physiology. 



3. The pathology of breeding, including the accidents and dis- 

 eases dependent upon coition or interfering with fecundation. 



4. Aberrations in the development of the embryo : Teratology. 



5. Accidents and diseases of the mother and fetus during 

 pregnancy ; Pathology of Pregnancy. 



6. Difficult birth : Dystocia. 



7. Accidents and diseases of the mother occurring as a sequence 

 to parturition : Pathology of the Puerperal State. 



8. Diseases and accidents of the new-born acquired during 

 intra-uterine life or refefable to the exigencies of birth. 



