Tiy8 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



selves. The primary ones are heat, redness, enlargement, and 

 tenderness. These in time subside (with the exception of the 

 enlargement, and this also is reduced as the condition be- 

 comes sub-acute), leaving behind a thickened, lumpy gland. 

 This may remain in statu quo until the time of parturition 

 again approaches, or at the period of oestrum. The gland 

 will then assume the same acute symptoms as in the first 

 instance, and pass away with much the same result, except 

 an observable increase in the enlargement. And so this 

 may go on for years, gradually increasing, until at last the 

 whole gland, and not unfrequently its neighbour, becomes 

 obliterated, and in its place is a large indurated tumour, or, 

 it may be, cancer. 



Treatment. — If the case is taken in hand during its acute 

 stage, -the early treatment laid down for mammitis — 

 leeches, fomentation, saline aperients, rest, and removal 

 from cold — should be adopted. When it occurs after par- 

 turition, the whelps should either be removed and the teats 

 drawn, or watched when suckling, that they do not irritate 

 the part. The scrambling and application of their needle- 

 like claws only tends to bruise and irritate the inflamed 

 gland. If it can be done without distressing the mother, it 

 is advisable to remove the whole or a portion of the family 

 until nourishment is again required. 



In chronic cases, and when the gland is not wholly in- 

 volved, and the enlargement not very considerable, the 

 iodine ointment, or tincture, may be tried outwardly, and 

 the iodide of potassium and iron inwardly, in the doses 

 already prescribed. When the tumour becomes large, 

 very pendulous and unsightly, or breaks, and gives vent to 

 an offensive discharge, excision is decidedly indicated. The 

 skin should be divided the whole length, or nearly so, of 

 the tumour, the edges reflected, and the diseased mass, 

 which is usually held by connective areolar tissue, is 

 generally easily and quickly removed by dissection around 



