204 Diseases of the Genital Organs 



animal. Moderate work or exercise and judicious feeding, 

 or, in animals which can not be worked or artificially exer- 

 cised, the allowance of freedom in a commodious paddock — 

 still better, in a properly enclosed pasture — ^tends largely 

 to prevent or cure the vice. Once the habit has become fixed, 

 it should be prevented by a shield so arranged as to cause 

 pain whenever the penis is protruded. It is a vice of idle- 

 ness and debility, and any and all remedies must fail in 

 their aim until the return to normal vigor is attained. 



