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recognized. If a sterile catheter is passed the pain caused as 

 it touches the prostate is significant. 



In the dog the affection may last for years, and tends to 

 advancing atony of the hind limbs. A temporary arrest of the 

 affection is often misleading, though the urine may be clear and 

 normally discharged, yet manipulation may show a gradually 

 advancing abscess, and when this bursts, usuall3Mnto the urethra, 

 all the symptoms become aggravated and C5'Stitis, urethritis 

 and general infection are to be dreaded. 



Treatment. This is far from satisfactory yet in certain purely 

 follicular or catarrhal cases it ma}' prove successful. An open 

 air life, without exertion, and a milk and farina diet are de- 

 sirable, yet any tendency to costiveness must be obviated hy 

 saline laxatives and enemata. The avoidance of generative ex- 

 citement must be secured, not only by restraining stud animals 

 from service, but b}' keeping them well apart from all females 

 of the same .species. Even castration may be sometimes re- 

 sorted to with advantage. Stallions given to masturbation must 

 be restrained b}' net or otherwise. Any disease of the rectum, 

 anus, urethra or bladder should be corrected, and undue ex- 

 posure to cold prevented. Lafosse advises to slaughter butcher 

 animals for food. Hertwig recommends iodine ointment on the 

 anus and perineum of affected dogs. It must be borne in mind 

 that the affection is maintained by infective microbes yet it is 

 difficult to reach and deal with these thoroughly and effectivelj'. 



As an anaphrodisiac may be given camphor, or camphor 

 bromide, ergot or potassium bromide, along with the mild stim- 

 ulating antiseptic eucalyptol or copaiba. But the irrigation of 

 the urethra, bladder and as far as possible the prostate with such 

 antiseptic solutions as potassium permanganate (i : loooo) or 

 silver nitrate (0.5 to i : 100) or zinc chloride (i : 100) is desir- 

 able. These should be injected into the urethra so as to reach the 

 bladder, the contents of which they will render antiseptic and thus 

 protect the organ against the tran,sported microbes of the prostate. 

 In man iodoform, europhen, and ichthyol are made info a bougie 

 with gum, palm butter or other soluble liquifiable agent and in- 

 serted in the urethra as far as the prostatic part. Similar agents 

 are used as suppositories or enemata. Hertwig's iodine ointment 

 on the perineum ma}'- be advantageou.sly replaced by sinapisms. 

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