INFIvAMMATlON OP THE OVARIES. OOPHORITIS. 

 PERIOOPHORITIS. 



Mares, cows, sows, etc. Causes : traumas, oestrum, parturition, leucor- 

 rhoea, pus infection, strangles, dourine, glanders, abortion, tuberculosis, 

 chill, poisons. Lesions : Ovary enlarged unequally, red, congested, exu- 

 date, extravasations, fibroid, caseated, purulent, abscess single or multiple, 

 indurations, cretefactions, cysts, blocking of Fallopian tube, adhesions. 

 Symptoms : mare : genital erethism, soiling of vulva and tail, colics, tender 

 loins and mammae : fever, dullness, emaciation, decubitus, paraplegia, 

 swollen tender ovary : cow bellows, paws. Sterility, anaemia, pysemia. 

 Treatment : Cold to croup, mustard, anodynes to vagina, calmatives anti- 

 septics. Castration. 



This has been frequently seen in mares, cows and sows, but it 

 may occur in any of the female mammals or even in birds. 



Causes. The condition has been ascribed to blows on the flanks, 

 pressure on the abdomen and the congestion of the ovary which 

 attends on frequent cestrum in the absence of the physiological 

 quiet which comes from conception. In a large proportion of the 

 cases, however, the attack has followed on parturition, abortion, 

 a preexisting leucorrhoea or metritis, or a suppurating process 

 in some other part of the body. These cases therefore, must be 

 looked upon as secondary and infective, the microbes having been 

 transferred from the womb, along the Fallopian tubes, or through 

 lymph vessels, or peritoneal cavity, or finally through the circu- 

 lating blood. In mares strangles, abortion, leucorrhoea, dourine 

 and glanders, and in cows and sows abortion, metritis, leucor- 

 rhoea, and tuberculosis, may prove the starting point of the in- 

 fection. 



Sudden chills when heated, perspiring or exhausted and es- 

 pecially exposure in inclement weather just before or after par- 

 turition, have been regarded as effective causes, and doubtless 

 these lower vitality and power of resistance, but back of these we 

 must look for infection coming from the parturient womb. 



Bivort records an extensive epizootic of oophoritis in sows kept 

 on waste ground which had been used for herding swine years 

 before. He attributes the trouble to poisonous plants, without, 

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