SCH1RR0US TUMOURS OF THE TEATS. «3'27 



While this treatment, which if adopted sufficiently 

 early is invariably successful, is being pursued, ail 

 requisite attention should be paid to the necessities 

 of the system; for any neglect in that respect will 

 materially retard the recovery, if not endanger the 

 life. 



SCHIRROUS TUMOURS OF THE TEATS. 



There are other tumours which cannot, perhaps, be 

 any where more conveniently considered than here ; 

 viz., enlargement of the teats ; or hard schirrons tumours 

 amongst these glands. 



When the milk of a suckling bitch is dried away too 

 rapidly; or when the teats fill with milk at the time 

 she would have pupped had she been allowed the dog ; 

 and more especially when an animal is denied her 

 natural longing for maternity, there may sometimes 

 remain permanent enlargements around the base of 

 the teats ; or numerous small, hard, kernel-like sub- 

 stances will be found in the midst of the glands. 



The moment one of these little hard bodies can be 

 detected, remedial measures should be energetically 

 adopted. An operation or removal of the enlarge- 

 ments with the knife has been recommended. But 

 the editor is not so fond of cutting living flesh when 

 the result is doubtful ; and no wound can correct the 

 disposition of the system to throw out such swellings. 

 Therefore the pursuit of the same measures as were 

 advised for the cure of bronchocele, is here proposed : 

 and if this treatment in the course of a month does 

 not change the nature of the tumours, they had better 

 be let alone. 



