Metritis is called inflammation of the mucous membrane that lodges inside the uterus or matrix.
Among all the females of domestic animals, goats are the ones that suffer most frequently. It usually comes from the violent extraction of the fetus, from maneuvers during childbirth, retention of pariahs or secondary, blows, falls, foreign bodies introduced into the uterus, etc. The belly becomes painful, the female makes efforts to give birth, desire to urinate, a gray mucus of bad smell comes out of the vulva, there is redness of the canal of the natura, which is sometimes a little swollen.
Dictionary of Practical Agriculture and Rural Economy, 1853
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