CONNEXION WITH GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
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commences or ceases is altogether uncertain. It is at first the 
natural discharge from the mucous surface of the urethra, and 
increasing in quantity, and assuming apuriform character in pro- 
portion as the inflammation is aggravated. 
“ What has been already said will enable us to form a correct 
idea of this totally local malady. I will only add, that there is 
the habitual neglect of cleanliness in these organs, and which no 
one seems at all to think or to care about — the various accidents 
to which they are exposed — the foreign bodies that sometimes 
insinuate themselves into the sheath — the long continuance there 
of the sebaceous matter and the concretions, and which press 
upon and excoriate both the penis and the sheath — the too great 
frequency of coition — contraction of some part of the sheath ; all 
these are circumstances which will perfectly account for any in- 
flammation that may be set up. These different agents will also 
produce different degrees of inflammation and disease. It is so 
with regard to the urinary organs, and the cause is seldom mis- 
understood. 
‘‘The treatment should consist of mild tonics when there is no 
serous exudation, and refrigerants in a contrary state of the parts, 
assisted by gruel in which a small portion of nitre has been dis- 
solved, and the general feeding more or less restricted according 
to circumstances. To these we generally add narcotics in de- 
coction, or in aqueous solution, when there are excoriations or 
sores, in order to allay the extreme irritability, and to hasten the 
cure. These simple means are often sufficient to obtain the heal- 
ing of the ulcers, wrongly said to be chancrous. It is rarely 
that we are compelled to have recourse on account of them to' 
any corroding lotion, or to have them touched with any caustic 
substance. 
“ When the inflammation of the part is very intense, accompa- 
nied by considerable swelling of the penis, recourse must be had 
to the applications generally resorted to for phymosis and para- 
phymosis. Prudence will suggest that the stallion shall not be 
used until the genital organs are perfectly free from disease.” 
[This is a very important subject, and we should be glad to 
obtain the opinions of those who have had practical know- 
ledge of it.] 
