DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS. 
By James Law, F. R. C. V. S., 
Formerly Professor of Veterinary Science, etc., in Cornell University. 
CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE TESTICLES, OR 
ORCHITIS. 
In the prime of life, in vigorous health, and on stimulating feed, 
stallions are subject to congestion of the testicles, which become 
swollen, hot, and tender, but without any active inflammation. A 
reduction of the grain in the feed, the administration of 1 or 2 ounces 
of Glauber’s salt daily in the feed, and the bathing of the affected 
organs daily with tepid water or alum water will usually restore 
them to a healthy condition. 
When the factors producing congestion are extraordinarily potent, 
when there has been frequent copulation and heavy grain feeding, 
when the weather is warm and the animal has had little exercise, and 
when the proximity of other horses or mares excites the generative 
instinct without gratification, this congestion may grow to actual 
inflammation. Among the other causes of orchitis are blows and 
penetrating wounds implicating the testicles, abrasions of the scro- 
tum by a chain or rope passing inside the thigh, contusions and 
frictions on the gland under rapid paces or heavy draft, compression 
of the blood vessels of the spermatic cord by the inguinal ring under 
the same circumstances, and, finally, sympathetic disturbance in 
cases of disease of the kidneys, bladder, or urethra. Stimulants of 
the generative functions, like rue, savin, tansy, cantharides, and 
damiana, may also be accessory causes of congestion and inflamma- 
tion. Finally, certain specific diseases, like dourine, glanders, and 
tuberculosis, localized in the testicles, will cause inflammation. ’ 
Symptoms.—Apart from actual wounds of the parts, the symp- 
toms of orchitis are swelling, heat, and tenderness of the testicles, 
straddling with the hind legs alike in standing and walking, stiffness 
and dragging of the hind limbs or of the limb on the affected side, 
arching of the loins, abdominal-pain, manifested by glancing back 
at the flank, more or less fever, elevated body temperature, acceler- 
ated pulse and breathing, lack of appetite, and dullness. In bad 
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