Cuarter 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. 
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