SECTION II. THE GENITAL INFECTIONS OF 

 SHEEP AND GOATS 



CHAPTER XV 



SPECIFIC VENEREAL DISEASES 



The Nodular Venereal Disease 



While describing the nodular venereal disease of cattle, it 

 was stated that the same infection is commonly present in 

 the copulatory organs of both sexes of sheep and presumably 

 also of goats. According to my observations the infection 

 is not as severe in sheep as in cattle, probably because the 

 sex and maternal relations are of a simpler character. So 

 far as I have observed, the disease has little if any economic 

 importance in sheep. Any extended consideration would be 

 essentially a repetition of what has already been said of the 

 •disease in cattle. 



CHAPTER XVI 



NON- VENEREAL INFECTIONS WHICH INVADE 

 THE GENITAL ORGANS 



Necrotic Disease of the Genital Organs Associated 

 With Lip-and-Leg Ulceration 



Flook (Jour. Comp. Path, and Therap., Vol. XVI, p. 374) 

 records an outbreak of a venereal disease among sheep. He 

 relates that, in a herd of fifty-two yearling ewes and two ram 

 lambs which had been recently purchased, it was noted that 

 one of the rams had a discharge from the sheath, while the 

 other had extensive eruptions about the mouth and nose. 

 Nothing was seen amiss with the ewes. Afterward the two 

 rams were taken from the band with which they had been 

 purchased and placed with a small flock of old ewes. After 



