Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . Hemorrhage or Plooding. Bleeding from the womb or vagina sometimes follows protracted labor,from injuries to those parts by carelessness or accident during parturi-tion ; or it may result from unskillful removal of the placenta. The con-tinuance of bleeding is due to the failure of the womb to contract, as itshould do, after


Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . Hemorrhage or Plooding. Bleeding from the womb or vagina sometimes follows protracted labor,from injuries to those parts by carelessness or accident during parturi-tion ; or it may result from unskillful removal of the placenta. The con-tinuance of bleeding is due to the failure of the womb to contract, as itshould do, after delivery. It is called flooding on account of its comingaway in such large quantities, the womb-full being evacuated at a time. What to do.—Throw cold water, by the bucketful, over the loins;cool the hand and insert it into thewomb, which will sometimes causethe latter to contract upon it. Ifthese means prove insufficient, in-ject cold water into the womb, witha suitable syringe. VI. Inversion of the Womb. Following immediately upon par- exaggerated of uter-turition, after-pains sometimes come ^^ hejiorrhage. on so nolently that the womb is forced right out through the vagina,and IS turned inside out, and lies or hangs behind the cow a pink, bag-. 890 CYCXOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.


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