SECTION X 
THE MALE GENITALIA 
Affections of the penis are limited to phimosis and 
occasional inflammations on a traumatic basis. The lat- 
ter is best seen in carnivorous animals like raccoons and 
coatis, but has little pathological interest. Two cases of 
phimosis have been seen at the autopsy table and one in 
an animal (hyena) still living. The last was operated 
upon some years ago and has given no trouble since. The 
prepuce of this beast is seldom retracted, but no swelling 
or retention of urine has occurred. A Red River Hog 
(Potamochoenis porous) dying of a variety of lesions, 
was found to have contracted preputial opening, the 
edges of which were tight and adherent to the glans penis 
at various spots. The prepuce had been dilated with urine 
to a large size from which collection the fluid could be 
pressed dropwise only by considerable pressure. Opening 
the sac revealed forty to fifty gray white sand granules 
about the size of millet seeds. A gray fox {Canis cinereo 
argenteus) had a mild grade of phimosis; in this case 
probably traumatism had some etiological relation, for it 
is the one referred to before in which a terminal urethral 
stricture was followed by rupture of the bladder. 
The testes have been peculiarly free of disease, only a 
small number of lesions having been found. A raccoon had 
an acute inflammation, traumatic in origin, and a few 
passerine birds were noted as showing involvement of this 
organ in the presence of some general infectious diseases. 
Two tumors were found in birds, none in mammals. The 
avian cases both occurred in Red-shouldered Parrakeets 
{PalcEornis eupatrius) and were round cell sarcomata, 
without metastases. 
Acute inflammations of the prostate and Cowper's 
glands occurred only once as secondary to pelvic infec- 
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