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OBSERVATIONS ON CASES OF LEUCORRHCEA. 
By A. E. Macgillivray, V.S., Banff. 
The generative organs and their diseases in the lower 
animals seem to attract comparatively little if any attention 
from the veterinary profession. In no English veterinary 
work that I have seen has this subject received anything like 
a thorough investigation. This is the more astonishing when 
we consider what an amount of time and erudition has been 
expended by the medical profession in discussing the same 
subject as regards their patients. 
Leucorrhoea, for instance,, how cursory is the notice taken 
of it by most veterinary writers ; a couple of dozen lines and 
the matter is dismissed, so that when the newly fledged 
practitioner meets a rather severe case he is completely taken 
aback. 
The designation of the disease itself, namely, leucorrhoea, 
is somewhat anomalous, as is also the vulgar appellation of 
the whites . It cannot be denied that the discharge, in cases 
of this disease, is often white, but it can, at the same time, 
be most undoubtedly asserted that it is far from invariably 
being so. In fact, the discharge or flow, in so far as my ex¬ 
perience goes, may be clear, white, yellow, greenish, or 
even slightly reddish-brown in appearance; and I believe 
such is the expressed opinion of most medical writers on the 
subject. 
In offering a few observations on this affection, I do not 
mean to give the details seriatim of a number of cases, but 
simply to record the ideas I entertain from actual experience 
in treating such cases. 
Leucorrhoea, then, as a disease in the lower animals, may 
occur in three distinct forms; namely, (1) as affecting the 
vagina, (2) as affecting the cervix uteri and vagina, and (3) 
as affecting the uterus itself. In other words, it may be 
vaginal, cervico-vaginal, or uterine. 
It may be as well, also, to premise here that the discharge 
may assume any of the three following characters, namely, 
mucous or nearly so, muco-purulent, and purely purulent. 
In the first-mentioned phase of the disease, which I have 
called the vaginal, the causative irritation is confined to the 
vagina, and the coincident discharge is generally clear, 
mucous, acid in its nature, and continuous in its flow. 
