408 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



place the glands will swell ; and on squeezing them, a 

 full stream of thick milk will flow forth. Nine weeks, 

 therefore, after oestrum, whether the desire has been gra- 

 tified or denied, the teats should be examined and re- 

 lieved. If this should not be done, small lumps will 

 appear. These are round, not sensitive ; but generally 

 roll under the fingers, and appear at first to be perfectly 

 detached, though more or less deep seated. No time 

 should be lost in removing them ; for if allowed to re- 

 main they rapidly increase, and often become of an 

 enormous size. Others also appear until the whole of 

 the glands are involved ; and the extent of the implica- 

 tion renders an operation, which in the first instance 

 would have been both simple and safe, so complicated 

 and hazardous as not to be risked. The tumors, more- 

 over, as they enlarge by their weight and size, become 

 exposed to numerous accidents ; either they are excori- 

 ated by the movements of the legs, hurt by blows, or 

 lacerated by being dragged along the ground. Any- 

 thing that interferes with their integrity seems to change 

 their- character. From having been dormant they start 

 into activity, and the slightest wound degenerates into a 

 wide-spreading ulcer. When this last appearance is 

 established, no treatment I know of can effect a cure. 

 If there be a hope, it lies solely in the skilful use of the 

 knife ; but generally the constitution is so much ex- 

 hausted, and the disease so firmly established, that sur- 

 gery is but a desperate resort. 



When taken in time, the situation of the tumor being 



