This somewhat ambiguous name is applied to a disease of the vagina, consisting of soft vascular growths or excrescences, which give rise to copious purulent discharge, mixed with blood, and which easily bleed when slightly touched. The parts are in a state of irritation such as exists at the period of oestrum; are hot, and more or less painful, and are frequently licked. These growths are of a florid colour, and highly vascular, so that they readily bleed; they resemble a cauliflower in shape, and grow from a pedicle or stalk.

This disease follows difficult parturition, and injuries received during parturition, or during coition, or at the oestral period.

The same disease is met with in dogs, either primarily or secondarily - in the latter case as the result of neglected balanitis. An examination of the part is sufficient to indicate the nature of the case.

Treatment

Hydrastis should be given night and morning, and a little of the powdered drug should be sprinkled every day over the diseased surface.