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appears, when it is advisable to allow the animal to be bred. The 

 custom, in some regions, of causing the cow to be served immedi- 

 ately after the operation is not favorable to conception according 

 to our observation and raises the question whether this premature 

 copulation and excitation of the genital system does not really 

 do harm and tend to cause the recurrence of the cystic degener- 

 ation. Especially in well nourished heifers and in deep milking 

 adult cows, ovarian cysts sometimes recur again and again so 

 that they may be ruptured three to fifteen times, which piits a 

 heavy tax on the time and energy of the veterinarian. 



It is interesting to note that exceptionally in cases of dumb 

 estrum, after the cysts have been ruptured, normal estrum fol- 

 lows or erethetic nymphomania with a recurrence of the cysts. 

 Further, in rare cases, thick walled cysts, present at a first exam- 

 ination and impossible of rupture, are readily ruptured under mod- 

 erate pressure two or three weeks later. 



We have also noted rarely that fibrous degenerated ovaries, 

 after vigorous vaginal pressure and massage, sometimes develop, 

 in the course of fourteen days, cysts as large as small hen's eggs. 



In general the rupture of ovarial cysts, when carefully under- 

 taken, is easy of accomplishment and without danger, and onlj' 

 requires after attention in the exceptional cases already men- 

 tioned. Serious or fatal sequelae have not followed the rupture 

 of ovarian cysts or the dislodgement of persistent or hypertro- 

 phied corpora lutea in this ambulatory clinic in spite of the many 

 thousands of cases operated upon, but we have had the fortune 

 lo observe such accidents elsewhere. 



Among the sequelae we may mention : 



A. Great Hyperesthesia op the Rectum and 

 Genital Organs. 



Now and then one meets with a cow which has been rudely pal- 

 pated per rectum several times by an inexperienced person ; or 

 affected with a chronic intestinal catarrh or intestinal tubercu- 

 losis ; adhesions of the uterine cornua and ovaries to the sur- 

 rounding organs ; abscesses in the ovarian ligament ; or, from 

 handling for gran'ular venereal disease, has become uncommonly 

 sensitive and strains violently, accompanied by the inspiration of 

 air into the rectum. The straining may be somewhat controlled 

 ,by pinching or nipping the dorsal spine for 30 to 60 minutes. 



