DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF SHEEP AND PIGS 493 
while you start turning the womb in at the passage. Con- 
tinue turning it in until it is all in the passage. Oil the hand 
and arm, if the sow is large enough for your hand to pass 
into the passage, if not, secure the services of a boy with a 
small hand. Press the pig bed right back into its place. As 
soon as you have done this, sew up the vulva — the opening 
of the passage to the womb— putting two or three stitches 
across it. Put them in quite deep, just leaving space enough 
at the bottom through which to pass water. Leave the 
stitches in for a day or two until she stops straining, then 
cut the stitches, pull them out and she will be all right. After 
you have put the bed back, if still straining, give: 
Laudanum % ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 
Sweet Spirits of Nitre ounce or 1 dessertspoonful. 
Fleming's Tincture of Aconite 2 to 3 drops. 
Mix in a teacupful of lukewarm water and pour down as 
a drench after turning her on her back and prying her mouth 
open with a stick. If she does not get relief in two hours, 
repeat the drench, and continue repeating it every two or 
three hours until the straining ceases. 
3. Drying a Sow. 
Give a teaspoonful of sulphur in her feed 'twice a day. 
Bathe the milk glands with lukewarm water, vinegar or warm 
forge water once a day for a week and allow her to run 
outside. 
