CHAPTER X. 
DISEASES IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED WITH PARTURITION. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY, PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA, 
OR MILK FEVER, SEPTIKAMIA 
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, drawa 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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