centrum

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Two or three years may pass, and at almost every return of the period of oestrum, there will be some degree of enlargement or inflammation of the teats.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

OVARIOTOMY, "SPAYING."—The removal of the ovaries, or ovariotomy, is practised for the purpose of rendering the female more useful for meat production, prolonging the period of lactation, overcoming vicious habits and preventing oestrum or heat.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

Give her half a grain of strychnia, morning and night. 26th That singular secretion of milk, to which the bitch is subject nine weeks after oestrum, is now appearing.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet: their love is ardent; but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination.

From Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by Priest, William

Leading from the ovaries, but connected with the surface of these glands only during the period of oestrum or heat, are the fallopian tubules.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.