166 Zhe 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 ot 
the mamma, 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 hemorrhage 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 rernoval 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- 
