406 The Diseases of Animals 



PARALYSIS OF THE PENIS 



This condition most frequently occurs in aged horses 

 and is due to debility of advancing age. It may also 

 occur in serving stallions from injury or debility. In 

 old horses the only treatment is to amputate the penis. 

 In other cases, the cause should be sought and removed; 

 this to be followed by a course of tonic medicines and 

 nutritious food. Give Fowler's solution (of arsenic), 

 beginning with one -dram doses in the feed once daily 

 and increasing one dram daily until half an ounce is 

 given in the feed three times a day. One dram of 

 pulverized nux vomica seed in the feed three times 

 a day is good. 



FREQUENT URINATING IN MARES 



Some mares have a most disagreeable habit of pass- 

 ing small quantities of urine and often switching the 

 tail at the same time. Such mares are usually of a 

 nervous temperament; and the vice is most likely to 

 occur when the animal is irritated or in heat. 



In some cases, when the animal is not badly affected, 

 allowing her to raise a colt will cause the difiiculty to 

 disappear, although it is difficult, as a rule, to get 

 such mares to breed. In other instances, the removal 

 of the "clitoris," a small organ just inside the lower 

 part of the vulva, will stop the trouble. In bad cases, 

 the best treatment is to spay the mare. Usually this 

 will stop the vice, but sometimes it will not. 



