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themselves, as if to micturate, but the act of urination is accom¬ 
panied with painful efforts, and results in the escape of only a 
small quantity of urine. 
Meanwhile, the appetite is ordinarily good, the coat looks 
well, the animal has lost but little flesh, and the respiration and 
circulation are normal. The disease as thus described may be of 
long continuance, and present the local symptoms alone, its dura¬ 
tion being greater in the mare than in the stallion. Yet the 
venereal desire, and especially the debilitating seminal discharges, 
constantly tend to hasten the process of the disease. Towards 
the end of a season, the morbid process seems to subside for a 
time, but only to return with greater activity at the next. Good 
care, co-operating with the vigor of the youthful constitution in 
a young animal, may succeed in limiting the disease to the mani¬ 
festation of its local symptoms. 
The first general symptom observed is the appearance of 
round tumors over the skin, analogous to those already described 
in mares. These tumors are flattened, well defined, never con¬ 
fluent, and involve only the dermis proper. They have been 
wrongly considered to be the first symptoms of the disease. 
There is often a slight enlargement of the lymphatic glands of 
the groin, with tumefaction of one or other of the hind legs, and 
orchitis also is often observed. As in mares, there is a nasal dis¬ 
charge and swelling of the maxillary glands, as in glanders. 
Stallions often seem to suffer from a pruritic sensation over 
various regions of the body. It attacks them with such severity 
that the animal, in seeking relief, rubs himself so violently as to 
become covered with bloody ulcerations of an exceedingly ugly 
aspect, the skin itself being thickened, and tumefied as well. 
These ulcerations often assume a gangrenous character ; the irri¬ 
tation increases, the itching becomes utterly intolerable, and the 
suffering animal dies in a condition of general marasm. 
The nervous symptoms become manifest only towards the last, 
though they appear at an earlier period in nervous rather than in 
lymphatic or plethoric animals. The first of these is an excessive 
sensibility over the loins, which become sensitive to such a de¬ 
gree that the slightest compression over that region may cause the 
