Diseases occurring offer Parturition in Cows and Sheep. b77 



to the jaw, until such time as the operator considers enough 

 blood has been evacuated, the blood being caught in some 

 suitable vessel. Should the blood continue flowing after the 

 pressure has been abandoned, the edges of the wound may be 

 pinched tot;ether with the fingers and a strip of adhesive plaister 

 laid on. The professional attendant will alone be competent to 

 bleed from the jugular, and he will rarely find it necessary to 

 open this vein in preference to the one above described. To 

 resume ; after bleeding, the saline purgative with laudanum, as 

 before noticed, should be administered, or, if the bowels be at 

 all relaxed, two ounces of linseed oil with the laudanum should 

 be substituted; the udder, and shape, &c.,must be well fomented, 

 and, if there be frequent straining, a dram of the extract of bella- 

 donna rubbed down with an ounce of warm water may be injected 

 into the vagina with a suitable syringe. If the sheep obstinately 

 persist in lying down, and the breathing is much hurried, the 

 wool should be clipped from the lower surface of the belly and 

 the iianks up to the udder, and a sufficient quantity of mustard, 

 mixed with spirits of turpentine to a thin consistence, should be 

 well rubbed in. The ewe must be placed in a comfortable 

 house, and, if food is altogether refused, small quantities of thin 

 oatmeal gruel should be occasionally administered, but a few 

 slices of turnips or mangold wurzel may be allowed if she will 

 eat them, and a little barley- flour with cut hay. If the symptoms 

 ameliorate under this treatment she should yet be carefully nursed 

 and sheltered for a few days ; but if, on the other hand, symp- 

 toms of grangrene, as noticed under the first head, appear, the 

 restorative plan of treatment there recommended must be 

 adopted. Any inordinate flux from the bowels should be en- 

 deavoured to be corrected by the administration of chalk in half- 

 ounce doses with the other medicines, always retaining the full 

 doses of laudanum. The rectum will sometimes be bruised, as 

 noticed in the treatise on the cow ; it may be known by the 

 straining, with discharge of bloody mucus proceeding from the 

 anus instead of the shape. The constitutional treatment must be 

 adapted to the prevailing symptoms, but the local application 

 of the digestive will be best accomplished by dipping an ordinary 

 candle into the oils and introducing it up the anus, gently 

 moving it about so as to bring it in contact with the parietes of 

 the intestine. Inversion of the rectum and bladder has never 

 been noticed ; should either occur, in the first case it would be 

 better at once to cut the animal's throat ; in the other, it may 

 be advisable, if the inflammatory symptoms are moderate, to 

 attempt its extirpation by ligature, as in the cow. Inversion of 

 the uterus is, however, not unfrequent of occurrence. The ap- 

 pearance presented is precisely similar to the cow, only on a 

 smaller scale ; it happens after long and painful labours, or the 

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