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Treatment. — First of all a purgative should be 

 given, one to three grains of calomel or one or two 

 compound cathartic pills, U. S. P. or B. P., and if 

 necessary the pain may be controlled by one fourth 

 grain of morphin sulphate or one tablet of H-M-C 

 (No. 1). Give calcium sulphide in one-sixth-grain 

 doses every half hour until the breath,', smells 

 strongly of hydrogen sulphid. 



The affected parts must be fomented with hot 

 water and the mammae gently massaged and milked 

 out, care being taken to entirely remove all the 

 clotted or curded milk. The fomentations may be re- 

 peated or a hot antiphlogistin poultice applied, the 

 massaging being repeated after removal, of the 

 poultice. 



After the acute stage is passed, inunctions of 

 warm camphorated oil are of service. Abscess for- 

 mation must be treated by free incision and anti- 

 septic treatment. 



Neglected cases may lead to induration of por- 

 tions of the mammary glands, leaving the so-called 

 mammary tumors. 



Eclampsia 



Eclampsia is a tonic-clonic convulsive spasm 

 which Attacks suckling bitches generally about the 

 second or third week after parturition, sometimes 

 earlier. It usually attacks bitches that are heavy 

 milkers and that have heavy litters of puppies. The 

 bitch is generally an extra good mother, the puppies 

 as a rule laying on flesh rapidly. 



The cause of this trouble is still somewhat in 

 dispute, but the prompt response to the eliminative 

 treatment rather seems to indicate that the retention 

 of autotoxins is the cause. 



Symptoms. — An attack comes on suddenly, the 

 symptoms at first not being very well marked. The 



