CHAPTER X ! I. 



DISEASES OF THE MAMM.E (UDDER) AND 



TEATS. 



Bloody-milk. Blue or viscid milk. Congestion and inflammation of 

 the mammary glands, Garget, Mammitis. Impervious teat. Sore teats, 

 Scabs, Waits. Simple and cancerous tumours of the glands. 



BLOODY- MILK. 



Causes. — Blow.g on the udder or commencing inflammation 

 from any other cause ; heat or rut ; a sudden accession of rich 

 food, causing local congestion with increased flow of milk ; the 

 consumption of acrid plants (ranunculus, hydropiper, resinous 

 shoots, etc.), and the conditions which give rise to red-water. 

 The milk may have a red sediment from feeding madder, log- 

 wood, and other agents. 



Trcnliiienf. — If from, congested glands, a sah'ne laxative 

 followed by nitre, restricted diet and bathing with cold water. 

 If from acrid plants, withhold them, give a laxative to clear 

 away any yet retained in the stomach and follow up with small 

 doses of nitre and acetate of lead. If from partial congestion 

 with a somewhat nodular state of the gland and but little heat 

 or tenderness, rub daily with compound tincture of iodine 

 mixed with three times its bulk of water. Milk carefully and 

 gently. 



BLUE OR VISCID MILK. 



Due to cryptogams in this liquid. Remove from the vicinity 

 of decomposing animal matter, withhold food or water contain- 

 ing vegetable germ, and administer daily bisulphite of soda (2 

 drs., cow). 



