734 Diseases of the Genital Orgavs 



"calf scours serum" the bacteria used in preparing the 

 serum are those of "calf scours" — not of "lamb scours". It 

 has been pointed out, however, that the bacteriology of 

 neither has been clearly established, and furthermore that 

 it has not been demonstrated that ordinary horse serum is 

 not quite as efficacious as is that from horses "immunized" 

 against large doses of the presumptive "calf scours" bac- 

 teria. 



Genital infections in goats have been reported from time 

 to time, but the goat industry is confined to comparatively 

 small areas except for scattering individuals of nominal 

 value, and the subject has consequently received no sus- 

 tained interest. When goats become concentrated in large 

 numbers and are intensely bred, fed and milked, they tend 

 ultimately to yield to genital infections similarly to cattle. 



Stone and Fisher^ have investigated an infection in goats 

 bearing some resemblance to goat pox, but not identifiable 

 with that malady. The disease was closely associated with 

 pregnancy and/ apparently led in numerous instances to 

 abortion. In the doe the symptoms of disease, consisting 

 chiefly of pustules, abscesses and multiple arthritis, usu- 

 ally followed closely upon parturition or abortion. The cu- 

 taneous pustules were followed by necrotic areas. The ab- 

 scesses were generally subcutaneous. Some of them ma- 

 tured and broke; others became caseous and indolent. The 

 multiple arthritis was of the ordinary type so frequent in 

 cows after intra-uterine infection, and in calves, foals and 

 other young following intra-uterine and navel infections. 

 The method of infection was not clearly determined. In 

 some instances the disease was contracted through a healthy 

 doe's being sent into an infected herd to be bred, but no evi- 

 dence was submitted to indicate that the inoculation oc- 

 curred through coitus. Many does aborted or became ster- 

 ile, or both. The kids born of the infected does largely de- 

 veloped the same symptoms, especially the polyarthritis. 



In the outbreaks directly covered by the report. Stone and 



'A Chronic Pox-like Infection in Goats and Its Successful Treatment 

 Jour. Am. Vet. Med. Ass'n, Vol. 8, p. 536, Aug., 1919. 



