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ters should receive special consideration. Diseased mares or 

 mares coming from infected premises should on no account be 

 admitted to the breeding place. Should the malady become gen- 

 eral in a neighborhood, as it usually does when an outbreak oc- 

 curs, breeding should be suspended until the disease is extermin- 

 nated. 



When a breeding stallion has become infected, aside from the 

 general handling of the malady, special attention should be given 

 to reducing to a minimum the dangers from orchitis and later, 

 after the acute symptoms have passed, to overcoming the linger- 

 ing chronic infection, through which he may continue to spread 

 the disease to mares. 



When it is known that a non-immune breeding stallion has 

 been exposed to this disease, immediate precautions should be 

 taken to guard the animal against a severe attack. He needs be 

 placed at rest, physically and sexually. The usual high feeding 

 of breeding stallions should at once be displaced by a very light 

 laxative diet, such as grass, roots and bran, with an abundance of 

 salt. If these measures do not induce a prompt unloading of 

 the alimentary tract the bowels should be evacuated by means 

 of small doses of eserine or arecoline and the system placed in 

 first class condition to withstand the onset of the disease. Pend- 

 ing the advent of the disease, the animal should have regular daily 

 exercise, great care being taken, however, not to continue it 

 after the advent of the first symptom of the malady, fever, 

 has become established, as indicated by thermometry. At- 

 tacked without these precautions, similar measures should still 

 be adopted, the ration reduced and confined to laxative foods, 

 while the bowels are promptly and cautiously evacuated. 



The patient is to be guarded jealously against physical or 

 sexual excitement. Strange mares should not be allowed in 

 sight or hearing, and every precaution should be taken against 

 arousing sexual desire. In most stallions the application of 

 the stud bridle occasions excitement, which, at such times, 

 should be avoided. 



If orchitis appears, as it frequently does, in addition to the 

 foregoing measures, including the internal administration of 

 nitrous ether and quinine, local appHcations to control the in- 

 flammation in the glands should be applied. First among these 

 in the early stages is local refrigeration by the application of cold 



