366 STABLE MANUAL AND HORSE DOCTOR 



II.— Diseases and Treatment in Connection with the 

 Reproductive Organs. 



SYPHILIS NON-EXISTENT IN THE HORSE — PHYMOSIS AND 

 PARAPHYMOSIS — VAGINITIS AND LEUCORRHCEA (WHITES) 

 — FOALING — CASTE ATION. 



Extensive and important as the variety and modes of 

 treatment of the diseases of the sexual organs are in human 

 surgery, the absence of those vices in the lower instinctive 

 animals to which proud reasoning man is prone fortunately 

 renders this branch of veterinary science comparatively 

 meagre. The practice of castration, too, makes disorders of 

 the testicles nearly a blank, except to veterinarians prac- 

 tising in breeding or racing establishments, where entire 

 horses are more frequent. Even here disease is rare. 



Phymosis is a contraction of the orifice of the sheath, 

 which prevents ** drawing," or protrusion of the penis. 

 Paraphymosis is, on the contrary, a contraction of the 

 sheath when the penis ia protruded and swollen, preventing 

 its being drawn back again, and thus bridling or strangu- 

 lating the glans penis. Both of these occur from blows, 

 kicks, contusions, or wounds. In the first, a troublesome 

 disease ensues from the animal urinating within the 

 sheath. In the second, which has been seen after accidents 

 in attempts at copulation, a kick from a vicious mare — or 

 worse, a blow from some human brute with stick or whip 

 upon the yard wdiile in a state of erection — the treatment 

 is similar : cold lotions to abate inflammation ; local 

 scarifications, producing free evacuation of blood. If there 

 are concealed ulcerations, or purulent collections in 

 phymosis, we must cut through the prepuce, and slit it 

 far enough back to insure its retraction, then treat the 

 disorder as in cases of abscess or ulcerations elsewhere 

 described. In paraphymosis, remember, all cuts must be 

 made lengthwise, and along the upper part and sides of the 

 penis, to avoid the urethra, and that they cannot well be 

 too long, as they shrink upon the part recovering from its 

 distention, and retiring within the sheath. 



Whites (Vaginitis and Leucorrhwa) . — These, to use the 

 words of Percivall, is no more than catarrh of the vagina, 

 an inflammation of the same sort as may attack the nose, 

 the bladder, or any other mucous canal. Mares who are 



