THE VETERINARY SCIENCE 
the bed well with lukewarm water and place a sheet or clean 
bag under it to keep it up and also keep it clean. Have a man 
on each side to hold the hind end of the sheep up. When 
your hands are well oiled, start to turn it in, commencing at 
the vulva and continue to turn it in until it is all in the pas- 
sage, then shove the womb back to its natural place with 
your hand before leaving it. With a needle and twine used 
for sewing wounds, put two or three stitches in the vulva, 
leaving only sufficient opening through which the water may 
pass. Remove the stitches in a day or so when the straining 
has ceased. After the womb has been returned there is likely 
to be some straining. To relieve this give : 
Epsom Salts % pound. 
Laudanum ^ ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 
Fleming's Tincture of Aconite 2 drops. 
Mix thoroughly and give as a drench. After this, give a 
warm bran mash, and the following drench every hour until 
straining ceases: 
Laudanum ^4 ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 
Sweet Spirits of Nitre . . -Ya ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 
Fleming's Tincture of Aconite 2 drops. 
Mix in half a pint of water and give as a drench. 
9. Inflammation of the Milk Bag (Garget). 
Causes. — Catching cold after lambing, a profuse overflow 
of milk, an injury, insufficient demand for the milk or the 
lamb not keeping the bag sufficiently empty may give rise to 
garget. 
Symptoms. — The bag becomes largely swollen with milk 
— is hard, hot, tender and inflamed. The ewe seems feverish 
and is in pain. If you try to milk her at this stage, only a 
watery, curdy milk comes out. If not checked now, the in- 
flamed part of the bag will commence to fester and form mat- 
ter, and will either break or have to be lanced. Sometimes, 
instead of the bag festering, it becomes mortified, and if not 
checked, the mortification goes up into the belly and kills 
the ewe. 
Treatment. — It is always best, if a ewe loses a lamb, or 
when the lambs are being weaned, to watch the bag and milk 
her out once in a while until she goes dry. When the bag is 
swollen and inflamed, milk her out once or twice, bathe her 
bag three times a day with warm water and vinegar, and in a 
day or so she will come all right. When neglected until it 
