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Title: Diseases of the dog and their treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Müller, Georg Alfred, 1851-1923 Glass, Alexander
Subjects: Horses Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Alexander Eger
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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xamination shows a number oftumors in the form of elevations either sessile or pedunculated, in severecases the walls of the vagina are covered with them. The sessile seems tobe commonest in the bitch; they lie, as a rule, well up in the anteriorportion of the vagina. The tumors will break down and disappear, but in the bitch theyinvariably leave a cicatricial contraction so that while the bitch maybecome pregnant she has great difficulty in parturition, the vaginal wallsin that particular portion becoming inelastic. In other cases if thebitch becomes inoculated ))y the dog the tumors grow so rapidly thatthey practically close the vagina so as to produce dystocia. That this disease is contagious there is not the slightest doubt, andthat it is easily transmitted experimentally has been shown by Wash-burn and Smith, who state that, For the first few days after inoculation z INFECTIVE TUMOR OF DOGS (natural size.)Circle I includes area slunvn belo~M. Circle a shows fully developed stage.
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■#*^ >\ ^^M^ ??f INFECTIVE TUMOR OF DOGS (the initial stage.)Camera drawings, lo7upower. Clarke, Protozoa and Diseases. Bailliere, Tindall ^r Cox, London. INFECTIOUS GENITAL TUMORS 489 a swelling can be felt, partly due to the fragments of the tumor introducedand partly to inflammatory exudation. In some cases this swellingcompletely subsides, so that nothing can be felt until the appearance ofa small nodule indicates that inoculation has been successful. In othercases the swelling persists, and it is difficult to decide whether the inocu-lation has been successful until a definite increase in the size of theswelling has taken place. The usual time at which there is distinctevidence of the first appearance of the growth after inoculation is aboutthree weeks, but it varies between twelve days and a month. * * *The small firm nodules which first appear gradually increase in size, andform rounded lobulated masses. At the commencement they are freelymovable beneath the skin, but at a

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