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Title: Diseases of the dog and their treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Müller, Georg Alfred, 1851-1923 Glass, Alexander
Subjects: Horses Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Alexander Eger
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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sion recurs in a shorttime, it is well to introduce a tampon into the vagina or pack the vaginawith antiseptic gauze or cotton and stitch the lips of the pudenda in such amanner as not to interfere with the normal passage of urine, and assistdefecation and prevent straining by the administration of laxatives orusing glycerine suppositories. The writer generally uses the followingmethod: After returning the vagina to the normal position, he puts twostitches in the pudenda and leaves them there for three days, whenthey are removed. In one case where there was great thickening of the walls of the vagina 214 DISEASES OF THE URIXARY AND SEXUAL APPARATUS and reduction of the prolapse was impossible, and another where thevagina prolapsed immediately after the stitches were removed after beingthere for several days, the writer performed a partial amputation, takingout an elongated piece of mucous membrane and sewing it up by a continu-ous stitch of cat-gut, which was followed by good results.
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Fig. 87.—The genito-urinarj organs of the bitch: a, ovary covered M^ith capsule; b, capsule of ovarj^;c, ovary; d, horns of the uterus; e, body of the uterus; /, os uteri; g, vagina; g, opening of the urethra;h, clitoris; i, i, vulva; /, bladder; ??;, urethra. Reduction of the uterus is much more difficult, and in the majority ofcases it is impossible except by laparotomy. The prolapsed portionshould be lubricated and gradually worked back, and after the fingers can-not reach any further, a tallow-candle must be inserted and the horn pushedback as far as possible. If this method is not successful, laparotomyshould be performed in the manner spoken of in hernia. An incision is DISEASES OF THE UTERUS 215 made into the abdominal wall and the finger inserted until the Fallopiantube is felt, and then the animal is held up by the posterior extremities,and by gradual tension the horn of the uterus is pulled back into positionand the opening in the abdomen is closed. The rules named for ret

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