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Supi^Jeineni to the " Tropical AgriciiUurist'' 
[Feb. 2, 1903, 
Treatmetit. — Now when a cow does put out her 
uterus, the first thing to do is to get to the case 
as soon as possible after you liave been notified 
about it. Some farmers know to wrap it up in 
a damp, hot bhmket, and send at once for the 
V.S., and when ho arrives the. first thing he 
should do is to remove the cleansing if necessary. 
Cleanse the organ, dry it with a cloth, and put 
some antiseptic and soothing dressing upon it, 
preferably an oily preparation, and return it by 
gentle manipulation, and put on a truss or West's 
uterine clamp, not screwed up too tightly to 
prevent the animal urinating or to hurt the rulva. 
The cow generally strains a good deal after this. 
To combat this v/e give some anodyne mixture, 
chloral hydrate, chlorodyne; raise the hind 
quarters with freshly cut sods. There is some 
danger of metritis, so a little tr. aconite and a 
mild laxative will prove very beneficial. 
RETENTION OF FOETAL MEMBRANES ; 
SEPTICEMIA. 
This disease is due generally to cow calving 
before the natural period, or from debility, weak- 
ness, want of blood, and mostly happens in hot 
weather. Dealers' cows that are " faired " and 
"trained" are very liable to retain the cleansing, 
and so are very liable to have septic poisoning. 
Causes. — The anatomical arrangement of the 
uterus in the cow, difiicult parturition, abortion. 
Aged cows retain the membranes longer than 
young ones as a rule. Contraction of the cervix 
uteri will prevent expulsion of the foetal mem- 
branes. Cows driven long distances to fairs and 
trained long distances produces fatigue and reduces 
the general health of che animal. 
Symptoms. — Usually part of the membranes 
protruding, but if not, there is a certain amount 
of shifting of the feet, uneasiness, urinating and 
passing faces often ; then there is twitching and 
curling of the tail. One very prominent and 
reliable symptom is the tail is carried further off 
from the body than usual, in a kind of an arched 
manner. If putrefaction has commenced there 
will be a dirty, sanious, offensive discharge from 
the vulva, mingled with shreds of putrid mem- 
brane. At this stage there is generally constitu- 
tional disturbance, the animal is dull, dejected, 
appetite lost or bad, respirations hurried, tempera- 
ture elevated, secretions suspended. The com- 
plications that follow this state of affairs are 
generally septicfemia, metritis, metro-peritonitis, 
vaginitis, leucorrhea, &c. 
Treatment. — If the membranes are not expelled 
in three or four days or less they are better 
removed, and the uterus irrigated with a solution 
of ozophene, chinosol, or suitable disinfectant. 
There are various preparations that can be- used 
for this purpose — carbolic acid, chinosol, ozo- 
phene, Jeyes' fluid, pot permanganate. I find 
about two irrigations sufficient. If cow strains 
badly I give anodynes. If in weak health and 
low of condition, tonic and external antiseptics 
are indicated, If septicaemia is feared, give 
plenty external antiseptics, with tonics, stimu- 
lants, and good food, easy of digestion and 
assimilation, and try to keep the animal's strength 
with milk, eggs, gruel, &c. Sulphites, hyposul- 
phites, sulpho-cai'bolites, quinine, hydro-naphthol 
are indicated, and to prevent infection of healthy 
subjects patients should be isolated, th2 excreta 
promptly burned, and covers, &c. used by them 
disinfected before being used with other cattle, 
INVERSION OF THE VAGINA, 
Or " showing of the reed," as the farmers call 
it in this district, is often seen in cattle. The 
causes are injuries, rupture of the internal bands 
that hold the organ in situ, constipation, 
protracted parturition, fatigue from long travell- 
ing after parturition, abortion, placental reten- 
tion. Old cows when heavy in calf show ifc 
often. Low stand behind, and too much fall for 
the stand, so that when the cow lies down the 
whole weight of the calf, stomachs, bowels, &c. 
are thrown back on the os uteri, and this tends 
to relax passages and to force out the vagina. 
Symptoms. — Generallj' makes its appearance 
when the animal is lying, and mostly seen in 
pregnant cows. The vagina differs in appearance 
from the uterus, as theira are no cotyledons on it, 
and it is also of less volume with a small round 
Orifice in tlie centre. 
Treatment. — Cleanse and return it after dress- 
ing with a little ol. carbolic. This is not a very 
dangerous affection, although it is sometimes 
very troublesome. 1 had a case here a short 
time ago ; this was a prize Kerry cow, and she 
wore a truss for three months before calving, 
and she calved here a few weeks ago but did not 
cleanse ; the os contracted very shortly after 
calving, and 1 could not remove the cleansing, but 
I irrigated the uterus with a solution of ozophene 
1,30, and she has done well. 
LEUCORRHCEA, 
Commonly know as "The White," is a chronic 
discharge from the vagina and womb, of a white 
flaky colour ; sometimes inodorous, at other times 
of a rusty colour, and muco-purulent, and very 
offensive. 
Causes. — Debility, difficult parturition, uterine 
excitement, polypus, prolonged irritation of the 
genitnl passages, and as a sequelae to tuberculosis; 
Sometimes the bull gets balanitis, and gives the 
cow he serves the disease, and sometimes she 
aborts. 
Symptoms, — Discharge from vulva, which is 
generally pale, bloodless, and flaccid, in other 
cases where discharge is flaccid, mucous mem- 
brane is rough and reddened and thickened, with 
stricture of the vagina as an accompaniment ; 
animals so affected are frequently in' oestrum, but 
very uncertain as to breeding, and if they do 
become pregnant they very often abort. Some 
constitutional disturbance is usually present, the 
milk diminished, the appetite very indifferent, and 
the animal fails in condition. 
Treatment. — In the primary stages, cleanliness, 
frequent injections of tepid water with weak 
solutions of alum; zinc sulph., pot. perman- 
ganate. The administration of a saline laxative, 
followed by tonics and laxative diet. In secon- 
dary or chronic cases, injections of tannic acid, 
ferri sulph., boric acid, iodoform, or if the 
discharge is offensive acid carbol. 1*40 or ozo- 
