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condition. Some males manifest an aversion to, and refuse to mate 

 with, a female affected with this disease. 



Treatment. Surgical treatment is, as a rule, ineffectual, unless 

 the growth is limited, in which case a fusiform piece of mucosa, to 

 include the affected area, may be removed, and the edges of the 

 wound drawn together and sutured with catgut. If necessary to 

 reach the growths the perineum must be divided and afterwards 

 sewn up. Complete anesthesia should first be established. 



Recurrence of the growths often takes place, when operative 

 measures should be repeated. Hobday says the growth may be re- 

 tarded by performing oophorectomy in addition to ablation. This is 

 comprehensible in view of the fact that uterine myomata in women 

 shrink and ultimately disappear after the inenopause, and surgeons 

 take advantage of this by removing the ovaries and producing 

 artificial amenorrhoea. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Hobday — Canine and Feline Snrgery. 



Kltt— Lehrb. d. Path. Anat. Diagnost. 1. 2. 



Pflng — Cited by Kltt In Lehrb. d. Path. Anat. Diagnost. 



Baynard — TraltS Comp. de la Paitar. des Fem. des. Anlm. Domest. Paris. 1845. 



