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CHAPTER V. 



DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS. 



[Prepared by Dr. James Law, F. R. C. V. S., Professor of 

 Veterinary Science, etc., in Cornell University, for the re- 

 Dort on ''Diseases of the Horse," published by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. Reprinted by permission 

 of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry.] 



CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE TESTICLES 

 ORCHITIS. 



In the prime of life, in vigorous health, and on stimulat- 

 ing- food stallions are subject to congestion of the testicles, 

 which become swollen, hot, and tender, but without any 

 active inflammation. A reduction of the grain in the feed, 

 the administration of one or two ounces of Glauber salts 

 daily in the food, and the bathing- of the affected organs 

 daily with tepid water or alum water will usually restore 

 them to a healthy condition. 



When the factors producing congestion are extraordina- 

 rily potent, when there has been frequent copulation and 

 heavy grain feeding, when the weather is warm and the 

 animal has had little exercise, and when the proximity of 

 other horses or mares excite the generative instinct without 

 gratification, this congestion may grow to actual inflamma- 

 tion. Among the other causes of orchitis are blows and 

 penetrating wounds implicating the testicles, abrasions of 

 the scrotum by a chain or rope passing inside the thigh, con- 

 tusions and frictions on the gland under rapid paces or heavy 

 draught, compressions of the blood-vessels of the spermatic 



