208 A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE IN THE GENITALS 
new operation so important as this; and I would advise the 
practitioner to put them on the chord in the first cases in which 
he operates with the forceps; but I am convinced that they will 
soon be discarded, together with the cautery and the caustic, and 
that the torsion forceps will not only present a more humane, 
but a perfectly safe mode of arresting hemorrhage in castration. 
5, Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital, 
7th March, 1835. 
We regard this as one of the most valuable papers that has 
lately appeared in our Journal, and we cordially thank Mr. 
Molyneux for it.—Y. 
A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE IN THE GENITALS 
OF THE HORSE AND MARE. 
By M. Lautour, F.-S. 
In April 1830, I was required to attend on a mare with the 
following symptoms:—running of a yellow-coloured fluid from 
the orifice of the vulva—the membrane of the vagina more highly 
coloured than is natural — phlegmonous and very tender en¬ 
largement of the right side of the udder, and which extended to 
the groin and the thigh on the same side. The discharge had 
continued eight or ten days, but the attention of the owner was 
principally fixed on the enlargement of the mammae, and which 
had produced lameness sufficient to prevent the animal from 
working. The appetite, however, was good, and the faeces of 
their usual consistence. 
I extracted eight pounds of blood from the jugular, and ap¬ 
plied the scarificator to the tumefaction of the udder, to which 
I ordered emollient lotions. Injections of water with a small 
quantity of vinegar were thrown up the vagina. 
The mare was radically cured in about fifteen days; and I 
thought that I had treated a simple phlegmonous affection. 
While I was treating this case I was sent for to another of the 
same nature, as I imagined, two leagues off'; and at the beginning 
of May I was called almost every instant to some new case, 
and each presented more serious complications. I was much 
surprised to see an affection, the characters of which were so 
similar in all, manifesting itself in so many subjects, and espe¬ 
cially as I could not recollect any epizootic or enzootic that had 
been accompanied by these symptoms. 
