178 THE DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



through with a scalpel and the remainder returned. The 

 patient was well in about a fortnight. Broad prefers 

 removal with the clamps and hot iron at a black heat as 

 causing less suffering than the ligature and less liability 

 to blood-poisoning. Brown relates a case (' Veterinarian,' 

 xl, p. 845) in which there were two complications, *. e. 

 fractured ilium and Uterine Tumour. Growths of the 

 latter nature are much less frequent than in the vagina. 

 Of Uteeine Ineetia a caseis relatedby Fleming ('Obstetrics/ 

 p. 418) which " is interesting as showing the tendency of 

 some animals to uterine inertia, as testifying to the great 

 valueof ergot of rye — at least, with the carnivora — its ecbolic 

 action on animals being denied by many veterinarians ; as 

 proving that the death of one foetus in utero does not 

 always imperil the existence of the others; and. as demon- 

 strating that, contrary to what occurs in the mare and cow, 

 foetuses will exist in the uterus of the bitch for forty-eight 

 hours after the expulsion of others without succumbing, 

 even when one of their number is dead." 



Post-paetum Hemorrhage from the uterus is rare in the 

 bitch ; Mayhew has recorded a case ( f Veterinarian/ xxi, p. 

 559). After a long assisted labour his patient was ex- 

 hausted and received a stimulant, but a flow of arterial 

 blood from the generative orifice threatened to prove 

 serious. The patient had already shown signs of delirium, 

 when an infusion of Tinct. Gallaa 3ss, Aquae calidae Oij, 

 injected into the uterus, revived the animal by causing 

 proper contraction of that organ. 



The vagina of the bitch is long and has thick walls 

 which are not unfrequently the seat of laceration. This 

 lesion is the consequence of injury during copulation, as 

 when the animals are dragged apart while still " locked/' 

 or it results from injuries inflicted by the passage of the 

 foetus or by instruments used in assisted or laboured 

 parturition. It has been remarked by Rainard that when, 

 the vagina has been bruised or chafed during parturition 

 in the bitch even the most trifling rupture of the walls, 

 even though unassociated with hernia, will prove fatal, 

 which is in marked contrast with the very considerable 



