7IO PA THOLOGY OF PARTURITION. 



is suckling ; and should it be required to lessen the secretion of milk 

 until the gland has recovered its normal condition, this may be effected 

 by a suitable diet, and perhaps a dose of laxative or purgative medicine. 

 Saint-Cyr recommends applications of vinegar to the gland. 



Should the gland remain hard, tense, and painful, and the superficial 

 veins be gorged with blood, much relief will be afforded by bleeding from 

 the corresponding mammary or " milk " vein, if a Cow. 



The animal should not be exposed to cold or draughts, and it may be 

 advisable to cover the body with a large blanket. If fever is apprehended, 

 enemas may be administered, in addition to the exhibition of nitrated 

 gruel. 



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Fig. 207. 

 Teat-syphon. 



Should coagula or solid caseous concretions have formed, they must be 

 removed. This may be accomplished by moving the masses up and down, 

 when possible, by careful and gentle pressure. When it can be easily 

 displaced, it may then be pushed down to the end of the teat, and pressed 

 through. A coagulum or concretion of this kind, as large as a nut, has 

 been extracted in this manner. When it is too voluminous, however, it 

 may be necessary to introduce a sound carefully into the canal, in order 

 to break it up ; or it may even be required to incise the teat, when the 

 mass is too large and dense to be got rid of in this way. 



Retention of the milk is sometimes due to atresia or obliteration of the 

 milk canal in the teat, and will then demand an operation which we will 

 refer to presently. 



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Fig. 208. 

 Ring Teat-syphon. 



When phlegmonous or parenchymatous mammatis is present, the treat- 

 ment must be energetic, and adopted early, in order to prevent those 

 serious alterations in the gland which take place so rapidly. 



In the Cow, bleeding from the corresponding mammary vein has been 

 recommended by many excellent authorities, from the speedy relief it 

 gives to the congested gland ; in the Mare, if bleeding is necessary, the 

 blood must be abstracted from the jugular, though this can rarely be pro- 

 ductive of much benefit. Leeches maybe most usefully employed, locally, 

 for the smaller animals, and Bouley has even had recourse to them with 

 great advantage in the Cow. • 



In inflammation of the gland, emptying it of its secretion or removing 

 from it the products of the inflammation, must be scrupulously observed. 

 Milking by hand must be persisted in for brief but frequent periods, even 

 though only a few drops of serum be withdrawn each time. The teat- 



