Once the discharge has come away tonic medicine is to be given, as the following pills:— _Recipe_: Salicylate of Quinine, 2 to 12 grains.[1] Reduced Iron 6 to 36 grains. Extract of Gentian, _q.s._ Mix. Make twelve pills—one to be given two or three times a day. Once the temperature is normal, scraped raw meat and other strengthening foods must be given. =Vagina (Discharge from)=: _Symptoms_: Bitches occasionally suffer from a white mattery discharge from the vagina, sometimes before or more often after being on “heat”. Sometimes after pupping a bitch will continue to discharge a thick, tarry-looking blood for weeks, which causes weakness, and often upsets the milk. _Treatment_: In the former case, if the bitch is coming on heat, do not interfere with it beyond keeping the external part clean by sponging occasionally with a weak solution of Pearson’s antiseptic fluid; but when it occurs after the heat, even though the bitch may have been served, means must be taken to stop the discharge, which is very weakening. Syringe the vagina night and morning with a warm solution of burnt alum, say ten grains to every ounce of water, and use from two to ten[1] ounces of the solution each time. The syringe should be one with a long nozzle, and after being vaselined be passed into the passage as far as it will go. Tonics should be given as from half[1] to three grains of sulphate of iron made into a pill. Repeat twice a day after food. When the discharge is of a bloody nature, as occurs after pupping, syringe as just recommended, and give from half[1] to two grains of ergotine added to each iron pill. [Illustration: JAPANESE CHIBI OF TODDINGTON (IMPORTED). The property of Mrs. Hugh Andrews, Toddington, Winchcombe, Glos. _Norman May & Co, photo._] [_face p. 318._] =Vagina (Injuries to)=: _Symptoms_: Occurs sometimes during the birth of a puppy, even when being naturally expelled, and it is often caused by instruments carelessly used to extract a puppy. Injuries to the passage at this time are always dangerous, as blood-poisoning often follows. The vagina may also be injured by dragging apart a dog and bitch when “locked” together. This is quite an unnecessary procedure, as they will quickly separate if the dog’s testicles be gently but firmly pressed. The vagina is also frequently injured by the passage of some foreign substance into it, as a peg or stick, as I have seen done in cases of prolapsus of this part. In these cases there is generally a mattery discharge, and when the injury has occurred during the birth of a puppy it may be very offensive, and in these cases there are symptoms of blood-poisoning, as a high temperature, loss of appetite, vomiting, etc.