CHAPTER XVII. 

 DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS. 



1. SYxMPTOMS. II. TREATMENT. III. SARCOCELE. IV. VARICOCELE. 



V. DEGENERATION OF THE TESTICLES. VL WARTS ON THE PENIS. 



VII DEGENERATION OF PENIS. VIIL EXTRAVASATION OF BLOOD IN 



THE PENIS. IX. PARALYSIS OF THE PENIS. X. MALADIE DU COIT. 



OR DOURINE. 



CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE TESTICLES, OR ORCHITIS. 



In the prime of life, in vigorous health, and on stimulating food, 

 stallions are subject to congestion of the testicles, says Prof. James Law, 

 which become swollen, hot, and tender, but without any active inflamma- 

 tion. A reduction of the grain in the feed, the administration of 1 or 2 

 ounces of Glauber's salts daily in the food, and the bathing of the affected 

 organs daily with tepid water or alum water will usually restore them to a 

 healthy condition. 



When the factors producing congestion are extraordinarily potent, 

 when there has been frequent copulation and heavy grain feeding, when 

 the weather is warm and the animal has had little exercise, and when the 

 proximity of other horses or mares excite the generative instinct without 

 gratification this congestion may grow to actual inflammation. Among 

 the other causes of orchitis are blows and penetrating wounds implicating 

 the testicles, abrasions of the scrotum by a chain or rope passing inside 

 the thigh, contusions and frictions on the gland under rapid paces or heavy 

 draft, compression of the blood vessels of the spermatic cord by the in- 

 guinal ring under the same circumstances, and, finally, sympathetic dis- 

 turbance in cases of disease of the kidneys, bladder, or urethra. Stimu- 

 lants of the generative functions, like rue, savin, tansy, cantharides, and 

 damiana, may also be accessory causes of congestion and inflammation. 

 Finally, certain specific diseases like maladie du coit, glanders, and tuber- 

 culosis, localized in the testicles, will cause inflammation. 



I. Symptoms. 



Apart from actual wounds of the parts, the symptoms of orchitis are 

 swelling, heat, and tenderness of the testicles, straddling with the hind 

 legs alike in standing and walking, stiffness and dragging of the hind 

 limbs or of the limb on the affected side, arching of the loins, abdominal 

 pain, manifested by glancing back at the flank, with more or less fever, 

 elevated body temperature, accelerated pulse and breathing, inappetence, 

 and dullness. In bad cases the scanty urine may be reddish and the 



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