538 DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 



ligature. The horse did not lose altogether ^iv of blood. Mr. Lewis 

 mentioned the circumstance to a surgeon, who informed him that he had 

 seen the same want of hemorrhage in the human subject when ampu- 

 tating : " the retraction being so forcible as to render ligatures needless." 



DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION OF 

 THE FEMALE. 



From the state of inaction in which these organs remain 

 in all mares save such as are kept for the purposes of breeding, 

 they are not^ any more than those of the male, found to be 

 the seat of much disease : a circumstance quite in accordance 

 with the general law of nature, which almost exempts that 

 from derangement whose functions are suffered to lie dormant 

 or are but rarely called into action. In breeding counties 

 and establishments, no doubt, diseases of these parts are 

 occasionally met with ; but in common localities, where no 

 breeding is carried on, cases of the kind are but of rare 

 occurrence : so that any account of the diseases connected 

 with parturition, at the same time that it can prove of service 

 only to the veterinarian in the former situation, can by him 

 alone be accurately given. In ordinary practice we now 

 and then meet with cases of 



VAGINITIS AND LEUCORRHCEA. 



Vaginitis is the technical denomination for any inflam- 

 mation, acute or chronic, existing in the vagina, while 

 leucorrhcea and fluor albus are — the one Greek, the other 

 Latin — appellations given to the morbid discharges issuing 

 from the vaginal cavity, which are generally white, and 

 ordinarily concomitant with, though sometimes unaccom- 

 panied by, and at other times remaining after, the inflam- 

 mation of its mucous lining ; the same, in point of fact, as 

 happens in the nose or bladder, or any other mucous cavity, 

 it being nothing more, in pathology, than a catarrh of the 

 vagina. Although mares in common use, not being allowed 

 to breed, are never put to the horse, still, as the warm and 



