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SECTION XV. 



DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 



IN THE MALE,' 



DISEASE OF THE SCROTUM. 



DISEASE SIMILATING SYPHILIS. 



URETHRITIS. 



GONORRHCEA. 



PHYMOSIS. 



PARAPHYMOSIS. 



AMPUTATION OF THE PENIS. 



IN THE FEMA.LE. 



LEUCORRH(EA. 



VAGINITIS. 



TUMOURS ON THE VULVA. 



HYSTERITIS. 



HYSTERIA. 



HYDROMETRA. 



DISEASES OF THE OVARIES. 



PROLAPSUS UTERI.2 



APPENDIX TO THE FIFTEENTH SECTION. 

 THE OPERATION OF CASTRATION.— THE DISEASES INCIDENT TO IT. 



PRELIMINAKY OBSERVATIONS. 



Fertile and important as the subject on which I am 

 now about to enter is to the human pathologist, it is one 

 which presents but little interest for the veterinarian. In the 

 absence of causes of a syphilitic nature, the horse, in com- 

 parison with man, appears but little obnoxious to disease of 

 his generative organs ; so little, indeed, that British writers 

 are all but silent on the subject : a proof that their practice 

 — to which I may add my own — has afforded very few such 

 cases for treatment. The custom of castration in our own 

 country, in depriving the animal of two important glandular 

 organs, has liberated him from passions and sympathies of 

 the most influential nature, and constitutes, in the male, 



' The custom of castration in this country has rendered all notice of the dis- 

 eases of the testicles unnecessary : at least, such could only prove of service io 

 veterinarians practising in parts of the country where racing estahlislinients exist, 

 from the practical observations of whom, indeed, they must he furnished. 



' For Prolapsus Uteri, vide ' VjiiERiNAKiAN,' vol. ix, p. 332. 



