Identifier: diseasesofdogthe00ml (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the dog and their treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Müller, Georg Alfred, 1851-1923 Glass, Alexander
Subjects: Horses Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Alexander Eger
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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t one part and lanolin fifteen parts, with low diet, and mild salinelaxatives. The gland may be milked slightly, this procedure must bedone very carefully, and then only when absolutely necessary, as it is notadvisable to stimulate the secretion of milk. Bitches that are not preg-nant frequently have a swelling and enlargement of the udder, six to eightweeks after the heat is over. This invariably disappears without anytreatment and it is not necessary to treat it in any way, but in very rarecases, if the udder should become congested, it is to be treated as ifit were a case of congestion of the gland. Very rare cases have beenknown where bitches suck the nipples and stimulate the milk, a haintthat is impossible to control, except by putting on a spiked muzzle, orgetting the bitch pregnant will sometimes overcome the habit. Neoformations of the Mammary Gland. Various tumors and enlargements form in the mammary gland, suchas fibroma, lipoma, chondroma, osteoma, adenoma, myxoma, sarcoma
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Fig. 91.—Tumor of the mammary gland. and carcinoma, and frequently mixed tumors, such as adenosarcomasfibrochondromas, fibrosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, etc., and there may NEOFORMATIONS OF THE MAMMARY GLAXD 227 also be cyst formations. Some of these mammary tumors reach enor-mous sizes, hang down and sometimes touch the ground, (Fig. 91). Asa rule these tumors are round; flat tumors as a rule, are rare, these tumorsmay be round or apple-like externally or they may be nodulated andirregular and fluctuate at certain parts of the tumor. These fluctuatingportions may or may not open, and discharge their contents and form anugly, raw, unhealthy cancerous ulcer, which is constantly licked by theanimal and generally we find enlarged infected lymphangitis in the sur-rounding tissues. Carcinoma is frequently found on bitches that arebeyond middle age, in the form of carcinoma fibrosum, or carcinomaschirrosum, or partially as carcinoma medullare or myxomotodes andcalcification, or ossification,

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