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In stallions, the local treatment is of course more difficult 
than in mares, from the fact that the sheath must be fomented 
and frequent injections made in the urethra. General treatment 
is of course necessary, especially in the stallions. Balsamic di¬ 
uretics, such as turpentine in doses of one or two ounces, and 
drenches of creasote water, or carbolized or tar water, will act 
most efficaciously upon the urethral or vaginal catarrh ; camphor 
and assafoetida, though recommended by some writers, has a less 
direct action. 
Tonics have given the best results. Trelut has recommended 
hashed meat and fibrine from the blood ; Rodloff prefers ferru¬ 
ginous preparations. Arsenic has acted very favorably in the 
hands of Trelut, who gives it in large doses, while we prefer to 
use it in small doses. Roell is in favor of nux vomica, and, with 
Strauss, the preparations of cinchona proved satisfactory. Al¬ 
teratives, such as preparations of iodine or mercury, seemed to do 
harm, as have also sedatives, such as tartar emetic. External 
counter irritants have been recommended, including setons on the 
loins and hind legs, blisters, and the actual cautery. But to a 
debilitated patient all these do more harm than good. We 
would expect better results from dry frictions all over the body, 
through their general tonic and stimulating effects. 
Much empiricism has no doubt characterized the treatment of 
maladie du coit. Too much thought has been bestowed on an 
unnecessary attention to the treatment of isolated lesions, and for 
this reason we object to the too complicated treatment of Rod¬ 
loff. At the same time, it would not be wise to ignore the indi¬ 
cations that necessarily present themselves in the appearance of 
mammitis, orchitis, abscesses, large infiltrations, or cutaneous ul¬ 
cers, all or any of which the surgeon is liable to encounter. 
IX. Sanitary police .—All old mares of a cachetic habit, with 
a discharge of suspicious nature from the vulva, as well as any 
stallion having sores suggestive of dourine, must be excluded 
from breeding purposes until their ailments are radically cured. 
Veterinary inspection of all stallions in districts where the 
disease exists is an essential measure, and in such districts the 
covering of mares ought not to be permitted except between 
