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she was not covered as she was not at the standard early mating age of twenty
months. Thereafter, she never came on heat, but began to develop typical
nymphomanic characters, such as masculine appearance of head, face, neck
and hump ; marked rise in tail-head ; roaring, mounting all the animals on
heat, attacking those animals which try to mount other animals on heat. At
that stage she had no desire for grazing except to wander with the animals on
heat in a frenzy of sexual excitement akin to that of a bull.
TREATMENT
On the 28th September, 1937, after examining her genital organs, the
author found a well developed muscular ring of hymen in the vagina, the
uterus shrunk and rigid with a pinhole os, the left ovary small and atrophied,
the right ovary contained a persistent corpus luteum. The muscular ring of
hymen was then snipped off, corpus luteum was pressed out, uterus was
massaged and the genital organs were douched with a lotion of tincture of
iodine (1 in 20) for five consecutive days. On the 31st October, 1937, the
heifer came on heat and was served by the stud bull Narayan, but she reverted
on 22nd November, exactly 21 days after the last service. She was
again covered by the same bull. When she did not show any signs of heat
for over a month after her second service and at the same time she did not
show any abatement in her nymphomanic temperament, she was examined
for pregnancy and was found empty. At this time her uterus was normal and
was free from rigidity, and also the os-uterus well opened. There was slight
improvement in her left ovary, but her right one this time contained a cyst
as big as a walnut. The former was massaged and the latter pressed out
with hand. The uterus was again massaged and douched with a lotion of
tincture of iodine once a day for fifteen consecutive days. When she did not
come on heat after the above treatment, she was examined again on the 28th
February, 1938, and the vagina, os-uterus, uterus and fallopian tubes were
found in normal condition ; her right ovary was free from cyst, but smaller
than the normal size and the left one in a well developed condition. The
ovaries were massaged, the uterus was douched with a lotion of tincture of
iodine as before, and internally five grains of potash iodide per day was pres-
cribed. In spite of these treatments, the heifer did not show the least
improvement.
When the author failed to bring her to normal condition, the only alter-
native left was to stimulate her to milk. The secretion of milk can be set up
by the reflex stimulation of the pituitary gland through the elaboration of the
prolactin hormone. The reflex stimulation of the pituitary gland for this
purpose can be brought about by massaging the ovaries. Moreover, the
massaging of the ovaries stimulates the ovarian tissue to elaborate an ovarian
hormone which not only controls the functional activity of the uterus, but
has also to do with the development of mammary glands and other sexual
characteristics of the female.
On this basis, the ovaries were massaged at frequent and repeated inter-
vals. As a result, the heifer began to show a rapid development of her udder.
On the 17th March, 1938, her udder was found engorged with milk. On
milking her, she yielded three pounds of thick yellowish milk of colostrum