CHAPTER X. 



DISEASES IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED WITH PARTURITION. 



PARTURIENT APOPLEXY, PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA, 



OR MILK FEVER, SEPTIK^MIA 



AGALACTIA. PUERPERALIS. 



INFLUENCE OF MENTAL EMOTION ON 

 CANINE LACTATION. 



I NEED scarcely observe that during pregnancy and 

 lactation, the mammary glands receive a greatly increased 

 quantity of blood — in other words, they are more vascular 

 and sensitive, and therefore more susceptible to take on 

 inflammatory action. At the same period the , mental 

 condition is very active. 



From a study and knowledge of mental emotional 

 influence in human physiology, we may by close observa- 

 tion in canine practice, draw a reasonable simile. Just as 

 tranquillity, irritability, anger, grief, anxiety, excitement, 

 fear, and terror exercise their various actions upon the 

 lacteal secretion in the human subject, and upon the infant, 

 so undoubtedly do they in various degrees upon the canine 

 subject. 



The erroneous practice of continually interfering with 

 and removing puppies, or creating jealous fear in the 

 mother by allowing the approach of other dogs, or strangers, 

 is fraught with much evil. 



When we hear of a healthy litter born, and one after 

 another quickly fading without any assignable reason, we 

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