When this complaint is on them they
allow no one to approach, until either they are exhausted with fatigue
or have reached the sea. Under either of these circumstances they
discharge a certain substance 'hippomanes', the title given to a
growth on a new-born foal; this resembles the sow-virus, and is in
great request amongst women who deal in drugs and potions. About
horsing time the mares huddle closer together, are continually
switching their tails, their neigh is abnormal in sound, and from
the sexual organ there flows a liquid resembling genital sperm, but
much thinner than the sperm of the male. It is this substance that
some call hippomanes, instead of the growth found on the foal; they
say it is extremely difficult to get as it oozes out only in small
drops at a time. Mares also, when in heat, discharge urine frequently,
and frisk with one another. Such are the phenomena connected with
the horse.
Cows go a-bulling; and so completely are they under the
influence of the sexual excitement that the herdsmen have no control
over them and cannot catch hold of them in the fields. Mares and
kine alike, when in heat, indicate the fact by the upraising of
their genital organs, and by continually voiding urine.
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