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is, notwithstanding, so much sympathy going forward 

 in the constitution, that, st the time when pupping 

 should have taken place, had trey bred, there is a very 

 great secretion of milk. At this time it is proper to 

 increase their exercise, to be sparing in their diet, and, 

 above ail, to give them some opening medicine. 

 Should the teats become very turgid and full, they 

 may be rubbed with a mixture composed of one part 

 brandy and two parts vinegar. It should also be re- 

 membered that the suffering bitches to breed, so far 

 from shortening their lives, is almost a certain means 

 of lengthening them, and they continue to breed to 

 almost the latest period to w hich they live. 



Bitclies breed some at once, others at the third, 

 fourth, or fifth, copulation. In those who are much con- 

 fined and petted, it is not safe to put them together less 

 than three or four times when they are wished to breed. 



While bitches are in pup, they do not appear to 

 suffer much derangement in the system ; some, how- 

 ever, are slightly affected with sickness and heaviness. 

 It is diiiicult to detect whether a bitch is in pup till 

 iive or six weeks are elapsed. At this time, the belly 

 begins to drop and the teats to enlarge ; and, in the 

 last two or three days of pregnancy, the belly becomes 

 more and more pendulous, though not larger, and the 

 contents seem to get more backward. See the article 

 Pupping. 



BBONCHOCELE. 



Br'^n':hoceIe is ? swelling of the glands of the throat, 



and is a very comrt?ov complaint among dogs. Pugs 



and F-="h pointers ?!t ■)eculiarly liable to it. In the 



human species this disease is very peculiar to the in-. 



