AN INQUIRY. 
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should be dressed with caustics or the actual cautery.”—[Veteri¬ 
nary Sanitary Science and Police, vol. 2, pp. 337, 346.] 
This disease of the horse and the ox would correspond to 
chancroid in the human family, only as so much greater mucous 
surface is exposed in the former case, it is more pustular than in 
the latter, where the mucous surface is much smaller, although 
there the sore is generally multiple. Essentially the two diseases 
are of the same nature—as any one can see from reading the 
above, and we need not endeavor further to enforce this point. 
This “ local affection” is not confounded with the constitutional 
venereal malady in the horse, which we shall speak of farther on, 
and which is of comparatively recent origin. We should here 
accept a lesson from the veterinary surgeon, and all those who 
believe that the chancroid is identical in effect with the chancre 
should pause and think , and after we have detailed to them the 
syphilitic disease in the horse, they should think again , and per¬ 
haps by the time we shall have finished this study they may be 
disposed to be less positive in the expression of their views. 
But to another disease—“ bovine gonorrhoea. 1 ’ This malady, 
in its general characters, is allied to the preceding forms, and is 
commonly known in this country, by the farmers and others, as 
“ bull burnt.” It is a local disease, chiefly affecting the prepuce 
of the bull, and the vagina and uterus (in severe cases) of the cow. 
Its causes are generally obscure, and may depend upon constitu¬ 
tional tendencies, though there can be no doubt that undue copu¬ 
lation, inattention to cleanliness, and general neglect, will gener¬ 
ally increase, if they do not immediately excite the malady. The 
symptoms are very marked and distinctive. There is considerable 
pain manifested during the act of micturation, which is often at¬ 
tempted and imperfectly accomplished; the animal is restless, 
stamps, jerks up the hind legs, lashes the tail and moves from 
side to side, at times groaning and grinding the teeth. The pulse 
is accelerated and full, and constipation of the bowels is some¬ 
times present. At first the discharge is slight, though it is soon 
increased, and thick, white and corrosive; there is also much 
tumefaction, the parts becoming of a deep red color. In neg¬ 
lected cases the mucous membrane is divested of its epithelium, 
