1 66 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



AGALACTIA (Absence of Milk). 



Absence of milk in the mammary glands is occasionally 

 met with in canine practice. 



Causes. — Suspended breeding, plethora, general debility, 

 exhausting disease, defective mammary development, acute 

 or chronic disease of the mammary gland. 



Treatment. — Good food, particularly of a leguminous 

 kind. In debility, ammonia, bark, iron, cod-liver oil. In 

 plethora, purgatives and plain diet. If from torpidity of 

 the mammae, friction to the glands, drawing the nipples, 

 carminatives, and stimulating food. 



PARTURIENT APOPLEXY, OR MILK FEVER. 



This disease is rarely met with in canine practice. 

 Probably the amount of haemorrhage that frequently takes 

 place in bringing forth the young, and the protracted 

 labours of the bitch before the whole family is born, may 

 to some extent account for its rarity. 



A greyhound bitch, belonging to a gentlemen near 

 Liverpool, gave birth to a numerous litter of whelps ; the 

 secretion of milk was very abundant. The family were all 

 removed the following day, the bitch became ill the same 

 evening, and the next morning succumbed to parturient 

 apoplexy. 



The pathology of the disease is much the same as in the 

 cow and mare. 



Causes. — Excessive plethora at the the time of parturition, 

 the sudden removal of offspring, cold, extreme heat. 



Symptoms. — Quick, full pulse, reeling gait, contracted 

 pupils, nose hot and dry, tongue furred, extreme thirst, 

 suppression of milk, constipation, ultimately coma, tympany, 

 delirium and death. 



Treatment. — Early venesection, counter-irritation at the 

 back of the head and along the spine, stimulants and 

 aperients. The head should be kept in an elevated posi- 



