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ON ABORTION IN CATTLE. 
sary to evacuate the bowels by the administration of enemata or 
purgative medicines. The animal should also be kept as tranquil 
as possible, and be left at liberty in a convenient place and a warm 
temperature. 
When abortion is apparently inevitable, the alimentary canal 
should be well opened, as in the preceding case; fomentations of 
warm water should be applied over the loins, also fumigations of 
hot water over the belly and nostrils, with gentle friction and mild 
injections. The beast should be at liberty, and undisturbed, ex¬ 
cept that, occasionally, if the weather will permit, she should be 
gently walked out; and this should be repeated according to the 
effects which it produces. If it occurs spontaneously, the after- 
treatment should be as in natural parturition ; but if the little one 
is falsely presented, the treatment must be the same as in unna¬ 
tural labour. 
The foetus having been removed, the placenta must be soon 
afterwards and gently withdrawn, if there is no considerable in¬ 
flammation of the uterus. For this purpose the hand, covered with 
some greasy matter, must be introduced, and efforts gently made 
to separate the cotyledons which are yet adherent; but with the 
recollection that the slightest possible force should be used in the 
separation, so that no effusion of blood shall follow. If the coty¬ 
ledons present considerable resistance, and there is hemorrhage, 
they must be let alone, and recourse must be had to emollient in¬ 
jections, and to fomentations of the same kind over the loins, and, 
possibly, a slight bleeding, and then these membranes may be 
usually detached without any great force. 
The foetus and the placenta being expelled from the womb, care 
must be taken of the mother. The state of the womb must first be 
ascertained, and such local measures adopted as that state may ap¬ 
pear to require. If there is inflammation, recourse must be had to 
simple emollients, br fomentations over the loins, or injections. 
If there is want of tone in the parts, warm water, slightly impreg¬ 
nated with brandy, must be injected; but especial care must be 
taken that the inflammation is not increased by the use of too 
active measures. Nothing must be resorted to that can augment 
the irritation which it is of so much consequence to destroy, or 
which might lay the foundation for future sterility, or the repetition 
of abortion. 
The consequence of abortion being got rid of, and there being 
no suspicion of remaining disease, nothing more is to be done 
but to continue somewhat carefully on the watch. In general 
it will be necessary to give a little better food, and, sometimes, 
refreshing drinks and gentle exercise. It will be prudent, il’ it 
can be possibly effected, to let the first mstrum after the abortion 
