xiv Contents 



PART III 



INFECTIONS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS 



SECTION I. THE GENITAL INFECTIONS OF CATTLE 

 CHAPTER XII 



THE SPECIFIC VENEREAL DISEASES 278 



The Vesicular Veuereal Disease of Cattle 278 



The Nodular Venereal Disease 283 



CHAPTER XIII 

 NON-VENEREAL INFECTIONS WHICH INVADE THE GENITAL 



ORGANS 317 



Genital Actinomycosis 317 



Genital Tuberculosis 319 



CHAPTER XIV 



THE GENERAL INFECTIONS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS ... 356 



I. INFECTIONS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS OF BULLS . . 358 

 Orchitis . 375 



Degenerative Orchitis. Destruction of Spermatogenetic Epi- 

 thelium in Calves . 375 



Orchitis in Adult Bulls. Abscessation and Necrosis of Testicles 379 



Epididymitis 385 



Degenerative Epididymitis of Calves 385 



Arrest in Development . , . . 385 



Chronic Indurated Epididymal Abscesses of Calves - 386 



Epididymitis of Adult Bulls . . 388 



Infections OF THE Glands OF THE Pelvic Urethra ... . 389 



Spermato-Cystitis . . . . 389 



Diseases of Prostate and Cowper's Glands . . ... 393 



Balantitis. Balano-Posthitis. " The Granular Venereal 

 Disease" 393 



II. GENERAL INFECTIONS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS OF 



HEIFERS AND COWS 



Diseases of the Ovaries. Ovaritis . . . 394 



Atretic Follicles . . . , . ....,'. 395 



Cystic Degeneration of the Ovaries, Nypiphomauia .... 395 



Intra-F'oUicular Hemorrhage . ,t , ...... 409 



Post-Ovulation Hemorrhage into the Follicular Crater. . . . 411 



Hemorrhagic Corpus Luteum . ., . . . 412 



Cystic Degeneration of the Corpus Luteum . . . 413 



'' ^ Hypertrophy of the Corpus Luteum .. 418 



,' ' Persistent Corpus LuteUm . ■.-■. . . .' .421 



" Central or Embedded Corpus Luteum. The Corpus Luteum of 



; ' Pyometra and of Retained Fetal Cadaver . . . . 422 



