| Show navel cord should have very careful attention immediately the call calf is dropped the navel cord coid I 1 should he be tied with twine that hils has been prepared pie pared for the purpose hy by being dept in a bottle containing ta either a 5 per cent car carbolic bolle neld add solution or spirits the twine should he be tied about one and one half inches from tile navel and it Is advisable to squeeze out an any y blood blond that may be in the cord before tying the hands of the person who ties the cord should of course have hae been well washed with soap and water and rinsed in disinfectant solution other otherwise the handling and tle tie ing the cord coid may prove positively dangerous and the purpose of it be defeated after being tied the cord navel and surrounding parts should he be painted with a solution of iodine in spirits 35 grains of iodine dissolved in two pints of the spirits and a second application should be made as soon as the first one 0 n e has become dry As an additional safeguard the cord and navel should then be covered with stockholm tar |
