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milk secretion, but by which the temperature did not rise above 31° or 
32° R., recovered with moderate celerity. 
/ especially recommend the thermometric , in unison with careful quan¬ 
titive observations of the milk secretion, as the means by which we are en¬ 
abled to warn owners and prevent unnecessary loss on the animals by timely 
slaughtering of the same. I also sought to reduce the temperature of the 
wounded parts by means of cold aqueous clysters in the rectum. It 
sank in the vagina about 1° R. for a quarter of an hour, but soon at¬ 
tained its former altitude. It must be left undecided if the continuance 
of this treatment three times a day for eight days was the cause of the 
more favorable course. I paid little attention to the pulse, as I must 
admit I place but little dependence in these phenomena in cattle dis¬ 
ease. I found the vaginal wound closed by many animals per prim, 
inten. on the third or fourth day, without tumefaction in the vicinity, 
only by a few did it heal per sec. inten., and then the pus flowed out 
the vulvae for a short period. 
A further unpleasant consequential casualty by ovariotomy is the 
formation of abscesses in the c. pelvis, and probably on the place 
where the ovarium was separated from the ligament per torsion. I ob¬ 
served this twice by my cases. Once the abscess limited on the vaginal 
parietes was opened and emptied; the other it was impossible to empty, and 
the case ended fatally. Animals which appear unwell some time after 
the operation, and which appear to be daily failing, should always be 
investigated for such abscesses in order that assistance may be rendered 
if possible. Although many authorities speak of the operation as 
being free from danger (Pflug considering the danger = 0), and further 
that complete health and their previous lactation condition, with few 
exceptions, return in five or six days, I cannot agree with them, and must 
emphatically contradict the assertion. Although the patient may out¬ 
wardly appear healthy, the long continued increased temperature 
and a review of the milk table, also the loss in weight, prove only 
too emphatically that reconvalesence may continue weeks ; yes, even 
months. I at first attributed this slowness in reconvalescence and the 
other phenomena to resorbtion of the hemorrhagic elements, accom¬ 
panied by a very mild peritonitis, but was obliged to discard this as¬ 
sumption, as the conditions were the same when the ovariotomy was 
performed per torsion. A partial peritonitis upon the locus operationis 
may be the occasional movement. If this fact has been overlooked 
by the operators in question, so must the reason therefore be that they 
have only given their attention to the outward phenomena of the or- 
