REPORT ON DOURINE. 



(IX) Trypanosomata in vaginal mucus. As Dourine is trans- 

 mitted from mares to stallions through infection during the act of 

 coition, it is self-evident that the "contagium" must at times, if 

 not always, be present in the genital passages of the affected mare. 

 Observations were, therefore, conducted with a view to determine 

 when and during what period of the disease the trypanosoma could 

 be found in the vaginal mucus of the affected animal. 



TABLE VI 



Showing the day after (fie primary covering or after inoculation on which the 

 trypanosoma was discovered in the vaginal mucus. 



Mare II. Microscopical examinations of the vaginal mucus 

 were conducted at intervals up to the 22nd July 1903, the 77th 



