5iO DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 



genitals and thighs after using the injection, to prevent 

 excoriation. The watery issue will sometimes continue for 

 weeks after the white running has ceased, and prove very 

 troublesome to suppress. 



Vaginitis, in its acute form, in the absence of any external 

 injury, I take to be a disease hardly ever occurring, unless 

 it be in breeding mares, in whom such an affection would 

 be likely to follow some of the accidents liable to occur in 

 the act of parturition : but of such occurrences I can only 

 speak from hearsay, not being in the way myself of meeting 

 with labour cases. 



Mr. Fitter, M.R.C.V.S., Wolverhampton, relates a case 

 of leucorrhoea, in ^ The Veterinarian ^ for November, 1849. 

 This is a disease not so prevalent in the animal as gonorrhoea. 

 The distinctive characters of these diseases are — in gonor- 

 rhoea the discharge is constant, but in small quantities, and 

 there is much itching of the pudendum, and swelling of the 

 labia ; and I have frequently seen, says Mr. Fitter, ulceration 

 of these parts. The mare is often at oestrum, there seems to 

 be an increased desire to venery; whereas, in leucorrhoea, 

 the discharge is irregular and in considerable quantities, and 

 is neither preceded by, nor accompanied with, any inflam- 

 matory symptom. 



Mr. Fitter was requested to give his opinion about a 

 hackney-mare, having a profuse discharge from the vagina, 

 of a thick, yellow, shining nature, coming away '^to the 

 extent of more than half a gallon a day/^ The mare had 

 been put to horse, and about six weeks after showed the 

 discharge. Several mares had been put to the same horse 

 without any such consequences. The discharge collects in 

 the fossa navicularis, and comes away by gushes. The sides 

 of the vulva become agglutinated by the discharge. The 

 mucous membrane appeared rather blanched than inflamed. 

 The discharge ran down the thighs. The organs of genera- 

 tion in this mare are evidently very small, so that there is 

 no doubt but that force in coitu has occasioned irritation in 

 the membrane. The gentleman who kept the entire horse 

 had a marc die from such cause. Mr. Fitter first gave the 



