2S3 THE DOG IN DISEASE. 



is threatened or actually occurs, is perhaps the most reli- 

 able medicine known. It might be worth while to com- 

 bine chlorate of potassium, and, if much nervousness, bro- 

 mide of potassium, with it. When the stomach is very 

 irritable, the strength failing, fever high, or if there be 

 delirium, etc., alcoholic stimulants are urgently demanded, 

 and, if they can not be retained by the mouth, should be 

 given in nutrient enemas. 



But these cases are not hopeful, and every effort should 

 be made to prevent their occurrence. Death usually re- 

 sults by blood-poisoning or exhaustion. 



COMPLICATIONS INCIDENT TO PARTURITION. 



These usually intervene in bitches improperly man- 

 aged during gestation, as house pets unduly pampered, or 

 specimens that have been overfed and little exercised. 

 Occasionally labor is severe from the sire having been too 

 large for the dam, the young to some extent resembling 

 him in size. 



In the entire management of the bitch during whelp- 

 ing the greatest attention should be paid to preserving her 

 in a trustful, undisturbed state. (See " General Manage- 

 ment of the Brood-Bitch and Whelping," pages 135, 141.) 



Routine examinations of the parturient bitch by in* 

 sertion of the finger in the vagina is uncalled for, and, as 

 a rule, it may be said that the fewer examinations the bet- 

 ter, on the principle that these are sources of irritation 

 and possible infection. 



If an examination must be made, as in a case of de- 

 layed labor, etc., the hands should be well washed, disin- 

 fected, and the examining finger anointed with carbolized 



