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resembling milk at the time they would have had pups had impregnation been 

 allowed, but such is the case. It is, therefore, the duty of the owner to note the 

 time and look out for the evidence of this secretion and have it removed by hand, or 

 by one of the many breast-exhausters, giving at the same time a light diet, with an 

 extra proportion of boiled vegetables and a few doses of cooling, aperient medicine. 

 Permitting a bitch when in milk to lie on cold bricks or flags, or to be exposed in 

 other ways to cold and damp, may also cause obstruction of the teat and subsequent 

 tumors; while blows, bruises and wounds sometimes produce a like result. A not 

 uncommon cause of these lacteal tumors is the hurried drying up of the milk by 

 artificial means. It is sometimes desirable to destroy pups that are the result of a 

 .'-" s tUiance, but it is absolutely cruel to deprive the poor mother of all her progeny. 

 In addition to the cruelty, there is always the risk of the flow of milk damming up 

 one or more of the teats and producing tumor. 



"The measure of prevention against lacteal tumors will, from the foregoing 

 ifmnrks, have suggested themselves to the reader. Nature has ordained that the 

 bitch should bring forth young at least once in twelve months, and, though she 

 permits us to take certain liberties with her laws, yet if we go beyond a certain 

 limit, disease follows as a punishment; even when we interfere with her preroga- 

 tive it must not be by direct contradiction, but by diverting her forces into other 

 channels. When we forbid the bitch to breed we put an embargo on certain func- 

 tions, and the energy that supplies and works these fuctions we divert by exciting 

 extra secretions of the bowels, kidneys, etc,; but the safest, because the most nat- 

 ural, prevention of disease, is to let the bitch breed. 



"When it is desired to 'dry' the bitch, that is, to stop the secretion of milk, it is 

 wrong to give alum and other astringents, and to rub brandy, etc., along the 

 rnaninire. The object is more surely obtained gradually, and that without the risk 

 of untoward results, by drawing off what milk there is regularly, giving a spare 

 diet, and a good purge, following this with 2 grains to 3 grains of iodide of potas- 

 sium, twice a day, and rubbing well with the following liniment: 



Liniment for, Drying Bitches. Iodide of potassium, 2 drams; soap liniment and 

 oil of camphor, of each 2 ounces. 



When a tumor does form, and the bitch is still in milk, draw the milk off twice 

 a day, and in any case, give a brisk purge. Keep her on a spare, and rather dry 

 diet, and to one of 20-lb. weight give twice a day 2 grains of iodide of potassium, in 

 about two tablespoon fuls of water, immediately after feeding, and apply twice or 

 thrice a day the following ointment to the lumps or swelling: 





Ointment for Lacteal Tumors. 



Iodide of potassium 1 dram 



Powdered camphor 1 dram 



Strong mercurial ointment % ounce 



Spermaceti ointment 1 ounce 



Mixed. Rub a l;ttle well in with gentle friction. 



If these means do not prove sufficient for the dispersion of the swelling, add 

 to the above ointm<jiit 2scr. of resublimed iodine dissolved in'a little spirit of wine. 

 When the swelling has gone on so far unheeded that matter is formed, and 

 mes soft and ripe (which may be told by the fluctuating of the enlargement 

 der pressure of the fingers), there is nothing for it but the lancet, which 

 ould be inserted in the soft part, and a cut made downwards, to insure perfect 

 inage. The parts must then be frequently bathed, the matter .pressed out, 



