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with their first calf, the walls of the vagina may be bruised and 
the lips of the vulva may be torn ; for these injuries the parts 
should be dressed with carbolised oil two or three times a day. 
In cases where the cleansings (the foetal membranes) are fast, I 
think that it is advisable to take away as much of them as can 
with safety be removed — the more of the decomposing, septic 
material that can be taken away the better — and the uterus 
should be washed out twice or thrice a day by means of a 
syringe, or preferably an enema funnel, with warm water in 
which an antiseptic such as Condy’s Fluid, Sanitas, or Jeyes’ 
fluid has been mixed. 
The antiseptic should be also applied to the hind quarters, 
tail, and hind legs, and to the floor of the house, particularly 
the water channel ; this is best done by means of a watering- 
can, which should be often used. This treatment must be 
continued until the parts have regained their normal condition 
and all discharges have ceased. During her indisposition the 
cow requires good nursing and nourishing food. 
Cases occur in which, after an ordinary easy calving, 
neither the vulva nor the pelvic ligaments regain their natural 
condition, but remain more or less relaxed. With this condition 
irregularity of oestrum is often present — in fact, I have known 
cases of the kind where cows have quickly developed into 
regular bullers. The same conditions may follow ordinary 
cases of abortion, and also those early cases where the foetus is so 
small that it is never seen, or even the act itself suspected. The 
latter cases are quickly followed by oestrum — which, indeed, 
may be the first indication that something has gone wrong — and 
if, unfortunately, such cows are then served, a diseased condition 
of the generative organs is set up that may bid defiance to all 
treatment. 
Of these cases, and cases of doubtful and non-breeding 
cows, I have had some experience both in my own herd and in 
the herds of other owners and breeders, and I have also had 
opportunities of carrying out experimental treatment upon them 
with varied success. It is only after such treatment and 
many post-mortem examinations that we are enabled to under- 
stand the causes that may be in operation to produce them, and 
how futile our remedial measures must be in some of them. 
Alterations in the position and condition of the uterus and of 
the os uteri, a diseased condition of the ovaries, and tubercular 
complications, set all remedies at defiance ; but, on the other 
hand, I have seen cases of irregular oestrum, with abnormal 
discharges, relaxed vulva and pelvic ligaments, completely cured, 
and the patients have again become regular breeders. When 
