OTHER INFECTIONS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS 

 Bursattee of the Penis and Prepuce. 



Genital bursattee presents characters suggesting, to the inex- 

 perienced, a venereal disorder, and constitutes an annoying dis- 

 ease in breeding stallions. It is not infrequent in those countries 

 where this malady prevails in other portions of the body. In our 

 experience, bursattee shows a distinct tendency to attack the 

 penis and prepuce of breeding stallions, especially of heavy draft 

 animals. The infection is, persumably, not coital but is trans- 

 mitted by other means : accidental wounds, flies or other carriers. 



The usual symptoms of penial bursattee, when first observed 

 by the groom or owner, is the presence about the urethral open- 

 ing of an angry-looking fungoid growth, which bleeds upon the 

 slightest touch and is generally observed to bleed immediately 

 after coition ; or, during erection, blood will drip from the tumor. 

 Another fungoid mass of similar appearance exists at the prepu- 

 tial ring upon the inferior or urethral side near the middle of 

 the organ when erected ; that point where the urethral opening 

 rests when the penis is fully withdrawn within its sheath. When 

 the penis is at rest, therefore, the growths about the urethral 

 opening and on the preputial ring are in immediate contact ; the 

 preputial growth has emanated from that about the urethral 

 opening, as a consequence of contact. 



The bursattic growth may begin at other points or may ex- 

 tend from the seat of infection to neighboring parts. In one 

 instance, we observed the disease beginning upon the scrotum. 



If the new growth is closely inspected, it is usually possible to 

 recognize readily with the naked eye the small yellow concre- 

 tions or "kunkurs" characteristic of the malady. In some 

 cases, the penial bursattee is accompanied by infections upon the 

 feet or other parts. 



So far as we have observed, the disease is not transmitted to 

 mares through copulation, though, clinically, it behaves as an 

 infectious malady and it seems not impossible that danger of 

 transmission to the mare through the vagina may exist. 



The micro-biology of the disease has not been fully deter- 

 mined, some attributing it to nematode worms, others to the 

 presence of a fungus. 

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