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Symptoms. The first symptom usually noted is a bloody 

 discharge from the prepuce or vulva, accompanied by tume- 

 faction of the parts. If the penis is exposed at this time, 

 there are seen pink or grayish red vegetations, largely upon 

 the glans or at the preputial ring upon which the glans rests 

 when the penis is retracted, at times, upon other parts of 

 the mucosa. The tumors are soft and friable and bleed 



Fig. 239— Infectious Venereal Granuloma of Bitch. (C. A White. ) 



freely upon being touched. They may be sessile or some- 

 what pedunculated, resembling warts. The affection is of 

 a chronic character and seems to have no definite limitation. 

 The vegetations continue to increase in size month by month 

 and finally become firm, lobulated masses, so intensely in- 

 jected that they assume a dark color. 



