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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
March 25. Condition unchanged. Irrigated uterus with 
creolin, packing discontinued, patient discharged, since which 
she has continued well. 
The intractable nature generally of chronic metritis in the 
mare, and the very rapid recovery in this instance, is strongly 
suggestive of the value of constant antisepsis by some conven¬ 
ient form of packing, which maintains the antiseptic action 
continuously. 
PROLAPSUS VAGINAE, DYSTOKIA AND RETAINED PLACENTA IN 
A EWE. 
(1765) Patient a badly nourished ewe, one year old, very 
weak and emaciated, presented at clinics, April 25, 1899, account 
of debility and prolapsus of vagina, supposedly not pregnant. 
On April 26, a lamb’s feet protruded from vulva. Explora¬ 
tion showed an anterior presentation, vertebro-sacral position, 
head deviated laterally. The deviation was corrected, the foetus 
extracted, and, the placenta being strongly adherent, was left in 
situ , and genitals irrigated with 1-1000 sublimate solution. The 
prolapsus of the vagina, with suppurative vaginitis, continued, 
the placenta remained adherent, while the small size of the ewe, 
with the swollen vagina, prevented manual detachment of the 
placenta. Accordingly the uterus was injected once daily with 
i-iooo sublimate solution, the injection being facilitated by 
partly suspending the ewe by the hind legs during the operation. 
The vagina w T as dusted with iodoform after irrigating. The 
placenta gradually sloughed away, the vaginitis and prolapsus 
abated, so that in ten days the patient was discharged recovered. 
PROLAPSUS VAGINAE IN A EWE. 
(1725) Patient one of a herd of one hundred pregnant ewes, 
four of which had been similarly affected and all succumbed. 
A large Dorset ewe in good condition, and far advanced 
in pregnancy, presented April 15, 1899, with severe prolapsus 
vaginae, the parts much swollen, inflamed and suppurating. 
The owner had forcibly retained the parts by a strong suture 
through vulvar lips. The vaginitis and suture caused frequent 
and severe expulsive efforts. The affection had continued for 
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