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CASES OF UTERINE DROPSY, &C, 
lowed to lay down, and apparently several gallons were discharged. 
The uterus was then injected with a weak decoction of oak bark, 
with tinct. opii., camphor, and liq. calcis chlorinat. Medicine was 
also given to allay irritation and promote the excretions, and these 
followed by tonics, &c., a charge being applied to the back and 
loins. The uneasiness disappeared, and the appetite returned in 
a few days. 
Sept, 15.—Recalled, on account of an abscess on the left of the 
sacrum, extending nearly from the tuberosity of the ileum to that 
of the ischium, underneath the fascim. A seton was passed, and 
not less than three pints of pus evacuated. Since then she has 
done well. 
On the 1st of September I met with a similar case in a heifer 
belonging to Mr. Robert James, of Chalkside. She moved her 
hinder parts badly: the womb and its right cornu or horn were 
greatly distended. 
The same process was again attempted, as in the former case; 
but the constriction of the vulva resisted the passage of the hand 
and on revisiting her next day, the state of the parts was quite as 
un propitious. 
Conceiving no other mode of evacuating the fluid with safety, 
on account of the intervention of the abdominal cavity between 
any other place at which the uterus could be punctured, and 
thinking that to force an opening there without the finger to di¬ 
rect the instrument would be highly hazardous, I requested the 
owner to send for Mr. Carlisle, V.S., who, on arriving, seconded 
my views, and induced a boy to introduce his hand into the va¬ 
gina, and by whose exertions the passage was opened a little 
forward. 
The sphincter muscles, from over-exertion and the administration 
of belladonna, were now considerably relaxed. I passed my hand, 
pushed the finger still further, and then completed the puncture 
with a whalebone staff, carefully guarded. The immediate ejec¬ 
tion of a most nauseous fluid announced our success. A flexible 
catheter was passed, and a prodigious quantity of fluid escaped. 
The constitutional and local remedies employed were nearly si¬ 
milar to those in the first case; and the injection was retained in 
the uterus by corking the catheter, which instrument was kept in 
for thirty-six hours, to prevent union of the parts. A catheter, 
when thus used, should invariably be kept closed, except when 
the part is injected or ejected. 
3c?.—No straining—she lies down much—is stiff behind—the 
pulse small and frequent—little appetite—faeces soft, abounding 
with mucus. Give sedatives and demulcents, to allay intestinal 
irritation. 
