DIFFICULT PARTURITION AND THE AFTER-TREATMENT. 
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To resume: To describe the experiments instituted to 
prove the infectious character of meats as of the same 
nature with those in which tuberculosis has been produced 
by the injection of tuberculous products, is, in my opinion, to 
venture a hazardous assertion, and we can but look upon it 
as altogether the wiser course to consider the facts as they 
present themselves. 
The meat of tuberculous animals may cause tuberculous 
infections through the digestive canal; but let us say that we 
would like to believe that the infection is less frequent in the 
cases of natural than in those of experimentally-induced in¬ 
gestion, for the reason that in the latter case the suspected 
flesh is usually administered in greater quantities and at 
shorter intervals than in the former. 
(To be continued .) 
DIFFICULT PARTURITION AND THE AFTER-TREATMENT. 
By Dr. G. A. Johnson, Y.S., Odebolt, Iowa. 
(A paper read before the Western Iowa Veterinary Medical Association). 
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As it is nearing that season of the year when the veterin¬ 
arian is liable to be called upon to assist in difficult deliveries, 
I trust that a few remarks on the subject of difficult parturi¬ 
tion may be in order. 
It seems somewhat strange to me that none of our leading 
authorities have advocated the use of anaesthetics in difficult 
labor. As they have always been of much service in my 
hands, I here state that I am very much in favor of the use ol 
chloroform, and my reasons for its use are somewhat as fol¬ 
lows : ist, that it renders the animal quiet, thus lessening the 
liabilities of the operator being injured, which is a matter of 
no small importance ; 2nd, that when the animal is fully under 
the influence of the anaesthetic, the uterus is in a relaxed con¬ 
dition, thus giving the operator an opportunity to right the 
malpresentation with much more ease than when the uterus 
is firmly contracted, and labor pains more or less constant. 
There are some objections to using anaesthetics, as having the 
animal incumbent and constantly in the same position. 
