Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS.
A collar should be passed round the neck of the cow, composed of
web : a girth of the same material is then put round the body behind
the shoulders,.and this is connected with the collar, under the brisket
and over the shoulder, and on each side. A second girth is passed
behind the first, and a little anterior to the udder, and connected with
the first in the same way. To this, on one side, and level with the
bearing, a piece of stout wrapping cloth or other strong material,
twelve or sixteen inches wide, is sewed or fastened, and brought over
the bearing, and attached to the girth on the other side in the same
manner. A knot on each side will constitute the simplest fastening,
and this pressing firmly on the bearing will effectually prevent the
womb from again protruding. If it should be necessary, another
piece, may "be carried from below the bearing over the udder to the
second girth, and a corresponding one, slit in order to pass on each
side of the tail, may reach from above the bearing to the upper part
of the second bandage.
The cow should be kept as quiet as possible ; warm mashes and
warm gruel should be. allowed ; bleeding should again be resorted to,
and small doses of opium administered if she' should be restless, or
the pains should' return ; but it will not be prudent during the first
day to give either those fever medicines, as nitre and digitalis, which
may have a diuretic effect and excite the urinary organs, or to bring
on the straining effect of purging, by administering even a dose of
saline medicine. Should twenty-four hours pass and the pains not
return, the stitches may "be withdrawn from the bearing, or the bandage
removed.
Homoeopathic treatment.—The operation, returning the womb, being
concluded, administer arnica internally, and throw up injections
of arnica water, which are very advisable, more especially when the
accident has been occasioned by difficult parturition, or when the
extractions of the after-birth have injured the womb.' When there
is fever, and an inflammatory state, administer forthwith a couple of
doses of aconitum. If the accident have been produced by great
efforts in parturition, we must have recourse to sepia and to platina ;
and, if it make its appearance a little after calving, especially when
the mother is lying down, benefit will be derived from china (two
doses each day). Pulsatilla and sepia are specifics when the fall of
the womb has been occasioned by efforts made to expel the placenta
if the anus has become depressed, cocculm would appear more par-
ticularly useful.
RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS.
Another more serious evil sometimes accompanies inversions of the
•womb, namely, a laceration or rupture of that organ, effected either
by the unusually strong contraction of the womb, or by the violence
with which the feet of the calf are drawn forward in the unskillful treat-
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