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quarters a little. Reduce any fever present, and give 
sedatives. Regulate the bowels, and give antiseptics 
internally. Wash out the uterus twice daily with a hot 
antiseptic douche. Hot blankets should be applied round 
the quarters, and fixed so that they cannot be easily 
displaced. Some recommend a blister as a revulsive. 
If the appetite is not lost, the food given should be of 
an easily digestible nature. If the patient is unable to 
rise, she should be turned every four to six hours. 
When the acute symptoms have disappeared, an 
astringent may be added to the antiseptic solution. 
Tonics and stimulants should be given internally, and 
exercise as soon as possible. 
In the sub-acute form, the symptoms are, as a rule, 
confined to the uterus, and there is little constitutional 
disturbance. 
Treatment.—Use astringent and antiseptic douches, 
and give antiseptic and tonic medicine internally. 
In either form of the disease, if the animal appears. 
to be suffering acutely, add an anodyne to the injections. 
In Sheep, septic metritis of an acute nature is. 
common, and is believed in many cases to be due to 
infection carried by the shepherd from one ewe to. 
another at parturition. 
The ¢reatment is similar to that employed in cattle, 
but the use of hot blankets is not practicable. Remove 
the wool, and apply an external stimulant to the 
quarters. 
Leucorrhea. 
This is a sub-acute catarrhal inflammation of the 
mucous-membrane of the uterus or vagina, or both. It 
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