The dog in health and disease : Comprising the various modes of breaking and using him for hunting, coursing, shooting, etc., and including the points or characteristics of all dogs, which are entirely rewritten / by Stonehenge.

  • Walsh, J. H. (John Henry), 1810-1888.
Date:
1879
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Credit: The dog in health and disease : Comprising the various modes of breaking and using him for hunting, coursing, shooting, etc., and including the points or characteristics of all dogs, which are entirely rewritten / by Stonehenge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon the abdomen; and it is manifest that she has another foetus within her. I ordered a dose of the ergot, and in about twenty minutes a large puppy was produced, nearly dying. She survived with due care. “ I cannot refrain from inserting the following case at consider- able length :— “Sept. 4th, 1820.—A very diminutive terrier, weighing not 5 lbs., was sent to my hospital in order to lie in. She was already restless and panting. About eight o’clock at night the labour pains commenced; but until eleven scarcely any progress was made. The os uteri would not admit my finger, although I fre- cpiently attempted it. “ At half-past eleven, the membranes began to protrude; at one the head had descended into the pelvis and the puppy was dead. In a previous labour she had been unable to produce her young, although the ergot of rye had been freely used. I was obliged to use considerable force, and she fought terribly with me throughout the whole process. At half-past one, and after apply- ing considerable force, I brought away a large fcetus, compared with her own size. On passing my finger as high as possible, I felt another foetus living, but the night passed and the whole of the following day, and she ate and drank, and did not appear to be much injured. “ Several times in the day I gave her some strong soup and the ergot. Some slight pains now returned, and by pressing on the belly the nose of the foetus was brought to the superior edge of the pelvis. The pains again ceased, the pudenda began to swell from frequent examination, the bitch began to stagger, and made fre- quent attempts to void her urine: with extreme difficulty in accomplishing it. I now resorted to the crotchet; and after mam- unsuccessful attempts, in which the superior part of the vagina