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DISEASES OF THE GENITAL ORGANS. 



tumefied. The cow was quiet, she tried to rise at long intervals, 

 and exerted repeated movements of the head and front members ; 

 the posterior members were inert. The conjunctiva was slighly 

 injected, the face without expression, as if frozen, the cornea had 

 lost its brilliancy ; the pupil could not be examined. On the after- 

 noon of this same day the animal was killed by bleeding. 



The autopsy was made eighteen hours after slaughtering. As 

 visceral lesions, we observed the friability and the grayish- white color 

 of the kidneys affected by fatty degeneration, as well as paleness 

 and flaccidity of the cardiac muscle. The coagulated blood did not 

 offer any alteration. The consistence of the cerebral substance was 

 normal ; the medullar substance was colored a dirty-yellow gray 

 (cadaveric alteration). Most of the bloodvessels were empty, and 

 contained gas at certain places. In the vagina was found a little 

 semi-liquid matter of a chocolate color, and upon the vulva sub- 

 mucous ecchymoses. The fold of the os was the seat of an œdem- 

 atous tumefaction ; in the neighborhood of its internal orifice there 

 was a loss of substance of the size of a silver dollar ; the uterine 

 mucous membrane showed several others of smaller size ; the bot- 

 tom of these erosions was grayish and of bad aspect. The uterus 

 still contained one-third of the placenta, adhering to six cotyledons, 

 and a liquid similar to that found in the vagina, but not at all 

 fetid. The uterine mucous membrane and the subjacent connective 

 tissue were the seat of an œderaatous tumefaction and of a gela- 

 tinous yellowish infiltration ; at certain places this tumefaction 

 reached the thickness of one and a half centimeters. 



EXALTATION OF THE GENESIC INSTINCT: 

 NYMPHOMANIA: SATYRIASIS. 



The morbid exaltation of the genital functions is designated 

 in our domestic animals by the expressions lascivity, bellotving 

 disease, monthly heat, ovarian tie [Mutter koUer), testicular tie (Samen- 

 holler), etc., and also under the improper name of hysteria. The 

 cows which are affected by it are said to be ^^bullers.'' The 

 term satyriasis applies specially to males, and that of nymphomania 

 to females. It is most often observed in the cow, mare, ewe, and 

 male dog ; the other males — the stallion, the bull, and the he-goat 

 — are but very rarely affected by it ; it is exceptional in the pig. 

 The causes of the frequency of nymphomania in the cow are stable- 



