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attacked by pulmonary phthisis ; and where the disease has ad¬ 
vanced to a certain stage, a more intense and permanent degree 
of oestrum has appeared, on which the treatment usually adopted 
with success at other times does not seem to make any impression. 
I have seen the same thing exist in mares affected with phthisis; 
and I should not, perhaps, omit to remark the singular analogy 
with this which exists in the hospital of Salpetriere, where half 
the insane patients die of pulmonary phthisis. 
At the end of the summer of 1808, I saw this furor uterinus 
destroy several mares in our regiment (the 26th Horse Chasseurs) 
which had recently arrived in Spain, and were not accustomed 
to the heat of the climate at that season, and to the other new 
influences under which they were placed. In all these mares, in 
spite of connexion with the male, and the treatment most appro¬ 
priate to their state, death speedily followed the development 
of uteromania. On the contrary, when at Madrid in the fol¬ 
lowing spring, a Prussian mare, belonging to one of the officers, 
came under treatment, in whom the oestrum was uncontrollable, 
and reproduced at exceedingly short intervals : they augmented 
with every connexion with the stallion, and at length she be¬ 
came, as it were, mad and dangerous to approach. This dis¬ 
ease, however, which at first seemed to preclude all hope, gra¬ 
dually yielded to restricted diet, frequent bleedings, severe exer¬ 
cise, and repeated plunging into the river. Perhaps the cure 
was assisted by the frequent administration of a decoction of 
the white water-lily. 
As the existence of this first variety of nymphomania, de¬ 
pending on direct and primitive orgasm of the genital parts, must 
be admitted by every horseman, I will not longer dwell upon 
it; nor on that variety of it, which must also be admitted, viz. a 
secondary and sympathetic affection, connected with pulmo¬ 
nary phthisis ; but t proceed to shew that it may be associated 
with and symptomatic of other diseases. 
On the 4th of July, 1816, a Prussian mare, eight years old, 
received an apparently slight kick on the upper part of the fore¬ 
arm. It produced a superficial wound about an inch in length, 
taking a transverse direction. On the morrow there was con¬ 
siderable enlargement of the wounded part, and heat and tender¬ 
ness, and also a singular convulsive motion of the muscles of the 
neighbouring parts, and particularly the arm, the shoulder, and 
the breast. There was likewise considerable general fever; and 
this was soon followed by the manifestation of venereal orgasm, 
and by a state of oestrum so excessive, that the slightest touch 
on the loins or croup would produce an abundant emission of 
thick, yellow viscid fluid. 
