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much more safe than reducing them by the aid ot 

 medicine. 



SWELLING OF THE UDDER. 



This is a complaint to which cows are liable at 

 the time of calving, and is generally an indication 

 that the animal will milk well. The swelling is due 

 to congestions of blood in the vessels of the skin, 

 with effusion of a watery liquid into the cell tissue 

 underneath. 



Symptoms. — Distention of the udder, pain and 

 tenderness to pressure of the hand. 



Remedies. — As a rule the swelling gradually 

 subsides by absorption of the liquid within a few 

 days after calving, and nothing is required but gentle 

 rubbing with lanoline or vaseline ointment. The 

 swelling of the udder may be associated with 

 mammitis or inflammation of the udder, and when 

 so, the treatment to be adopted will be found under 

 that heading. 



DISEASES OF THE MAMMARY GLAND OR 

 UDDER. 



In the cow the mammory gland is divided into 

 four quarters, and there are four teats and four 

 orifices ; but in the mare there are only two quarters 

 and two teats, with four orifices. The gland is 

 connected to the abdomen by a sheet of connective 

 tissue. It is further bound and supported to the 

 abdomen by tendinous structure running betwixt 

 the two halves of the gland, connected on the one 

 hand to the muscles of the abdomen, and on the 

 other by delicate fibres to the lactiferous (milk) 

 ducts. It is in virtue of this arrangement that 



