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continuity the tissue had a shred-like appearance, of a yellow 
colour, and of a consistence becoming more and more soft as we 
approached the actual rupture : the tissue there seemed to be 
divided by red striae, resembling cellular interfibrillary laminae. 
The serous membrane which lined the sheath was injected, or 
rather its vessels were turgid beyond measure. 
Gleet in Dogs. 
By M. Renault, Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort. 
During the last six months many dogs have been brought to 
the infirmary of the school of Alfort with a purulent discharge 
from the prepuce, resembling gleet in the human being. The 
general health of the animal does not seem to be affected ; but 
it is a disease altogether local. It consists of a muco-purulent 
secretion, more or less abundant, from the internal surface of the 
sheath, and sometimes, although but rarely, from the external 
surface of the glans. It is of a yellowish white or pale green 
colour, adhering to the hair which surrounds the opening into 
the prepuce; and it sometimes escapes in a considerable quantity 
when the prepuce is pressed upon in a direction from behind 
forwards. In one dog it was accompanied by acute inflammation 
of the preputial mucous membrane, which was red and highly 
injected. In the greater number of cases it is a mere chronic 
discharge without injection or tumefaction of the surfaces, which, 
on the contrary, have rather a pale livid aspect, and pressure 
upon them does not produce the slightest pain. 
Although I have never been able to obtain more than vague 
accounts of the causes which were likely to have produced this dis¬ 
charge, I have always thought that it depended on frequent con¬ 
nexion with the female, and especially with those of a small size # . 
M. Delafond and myself have made many experiments in order 
to determine whether the matter thus discharged possessed any 
virulent properties. We have rubbed it on the membrane of 
the prepuce, and on the glans of several dogs ; we inoculated the 
prepuce of one with it, but without any result that could warrant 
us in supposing that it contained any contagious property. We 
have not made any experiment on the bitch. 
Among all the modes of treatment that we adopted, we have 
been most successful when we have injected the u Liqueur de 
* This is not true. Petted dogs, that are carefully kept from all access to 
the bitch, quite as often have this discharge as those that range at the most 
perfect liberty; and I have seen it in poor emaciated dogs as fre¬ 
quently as in those that were in the highest condition, and apparently most 
susceptible of venereal excitement.—Y. 
