This is generally caused by milk fever, a too plentiful supply of milk which is not nursed sufficiently from the dam by a small litter, or will happen in cases of the bitch loosing her puppies. She must be milked three times daily by hand (this done gently on teats that are hard and caked) for a few days, gradually getting down to twice, and then once a day, stopping as the flow of milk gets less.

Also use quite often, every two hours or so, camphorated oil or gum camphor and lard melted together (which should be kept in a corked jar), rubbing this in well on all the teats. This will dry up the milk, soften up the caked breasts and dry up the hanging down bag as well, making the bitch more sightly looking. A solution of camphor, tannin and glycerine, which any druggist can put up for you, is the very best thing to use alone for drying up the bags of a bitch after she has weaned her puppies.

Dent prescribed for following case:

"My English setter bitch, six years old, whelped and had a caked udder but seemed to get over it. Now one of the front teats shows a lump or cake as large as an English walnut. What treatment do you advise and what is it? Ans. - It is simply caked. Give five grains of the iodide of potash three times a day for two weeks and apply with gentle friction to the enlarged teat the following ointment: Belladonna extract twenty grains, gum camphor twenty grains, lanolin one ounce. She can he bred safely when she comes in season."