Treatment: A raw meat diet with tonics, or the following pills:—
Recipe:
| Reduced Iron, | 12 to 48 grains.[1] |
| Arsenic, | ⅟₁₂th to ¼th ” |
| Extract Gentian, | 6 to 20 ” |
| Mix. | |
Divide into 12 pills. One twice a day after food.
Cod-liver oil is also advised after food, from half a teaspoonful[1] to a tablespoonful twice a day.
Mastitis (Inflammation of Breast):
Symptoms: This complaint is not uncommon in bitches when nursing puppies. One or more of the milk-glands may be affected. The breast is swollen, red, and very tender. The bitch is off her feed, and there is often a good deal of fever. An abscess generally forms, which should be lanced as soon as it becomes soft and points.
Treatment: Hot water fomentations are the best, as it is difficult to apply poultices when a bitch is nursing puppies. If the temperature is very high, from two[1] to ten grains of salicylate of soda may be given three or four times a day.
After the abscess has been opened, or has broken, tonics as from a quarter of a grain[1] to one grain of sulphate of quinine should be given three times a day.