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Title: Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: White, George Ransom, 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Castration Spaying
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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low the abdominal incision,in which event the cord is located and drawn through abdominalincision and the natural consequence is that the testicle will fol-low. The spermatic cord is now severed and its stump replacedin the abdominal cavity. If a cryptorchid (both testicles un-descended) both testicles should be removed through the one ab-dominal incision. The abdominal wall should now be closed withthree interrupted sutures. These sutures should be what is knownas the through and through variety—all coats of the abdominalwall included in them. After Care and Treatment—The animal should be confined foreight or nine days in a small, clean pen; during this period the Animal Casteation 115 diet should be limited. Nature will ordinarily take care of re-moving the sutures. CASTRATION OF THE RUPTURED BOAR. Scrotal hernia (rupture) in the boar occurs invariably anddirectly as a result of dilation or enlargement of the internalabdominal ring. The anatomical function of the internal abdom-
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Fig. 88—Abdominal Wall Closed by Three Interrupted Sutures. inal ring is to allow the spermatic cord to pass from the abdom-inal cavity into the inguinal canal and at the same time prohibitthe passage of any portion of the intestines from the cavity intothat canal. 116 Animal Castration Causes—The experience of others and. my own observationlead me to believe that scrotal hernia of the boar is one condi-tion which can be truthfully laid at the door of hereditary trans-mission in 95 per cent of cases. They are of congenital origin.The internal abdominal ring being open at time of birth andnature fails to close it afterwards. In my own practice I recallone sow in particular which presented her owner with a bunchof ruptured pigs twice each year. This sow gave birth to largelitters and was kept as a brood sow on that account. These litterswere usually about equally divided between boar and sow pigs.During the three years that this sow was under my observationeach and every boar pig to

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