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present^ the parts continue tense and shining, and painful 

 from inflammation ; but as soon as any issue appears, the 

 usual lubrefactive secretion becomes augmented and thickened, 

 and acquires a strong, penetrating, fetid odour : sometimes 

 the secretion is -mingled with a whitish serosity, and the 

 .cuticle of the penis peels off in flakes. The irritation may 

 give rise to phymosis or to paraphymosis. When partial, or 

 exhibiting intensity only in certain points or places, little 

 circumscribed patches of redness become apparent, succeeded 

 by small vesicles, which break and leave little ulcers, con- 

 sidered improperly to be chancres. But the irritation does 

 not confine itself to the part first attacked ; it spreads to the 

 membrane lining the urethra, connected, sympathetically, 

 with the integument, and produces those morbid discharges 

 known as runnings from the penis. And should the animal 

 have connection with the female while this running continues, 

 the same sort of irritation may manifest itself in the vagina. 



" Causes for this irritation may be found in the habitually 

 uncleansed condition of the genitals of animals ; in the divers 

 accidents to which they are exposed ; in the introduction of 

 foreign substances into the sheath ; in collections of concreted 

 sebaceous matters underneath the prepuce ; in any abuses in 

 coitation ; in acrid injections into the urethra, or in the 

 presence of calculus or any other strange body within the 

 canal. 



" The Treatment most suitable for these cases consists in 

 applying tonic emollients so long as any serous exudation is 

 present ; refrigerants, when not : aided by nitred mucilaginous 

 drinks and injections, and strict attention to diet and regi- 

 men. When the cuticle separates, to allay the irritability of 

 the denuded parts^ we use narcotics either in decoction or 

 aqueous solution. We are rarely compelled to have recourse 

 to any phagedenic lotions, still more rarely to catheterism, 

 or caustics.'^ 



