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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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gether the cord and its coverings are severed.The end incision method (Figure 99), has many advantages Animal Castration 129 over the one already described and is to be preferred. Grasp apexof scrotum in left hand and remove one third of it—from the apex—by one sweep of the knife. The testicles surrounded by theirtunica vaginalis will now drop down below the incision. By aknick of the knife incise the tunics and expose the testicles, afterwhich grasp them (of course separately) with the right hand andmake outward traction, at the same time isolate the cords by strip-ping them of their coverings to a point near summit of scrotum.Next with left hand grasp the testicle, at the same time producingtwo pounds outward traction on the spermatic cord. With righthand apply emasculator to cord and by forcing it well up tosummit of scrotum sever the cord and its coverings by bringinghandles of instrument together. Figure 100 illustrates manner inwhich cords are severed with the emasculator. I
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Fig. 100—Severing Spermatic Cords and Their Coverings with Emasculator. After Care and Treatment—The most essential precaution tobe taken after rams and lambs are castrated is to place them insanitary surroundings, away from danger of wound contaminationby barn and barnyard manure and dirt. In favorable weather pas- 130 Animal Castration ture is the ideal place. In bad weather a previously cleaned hall-way or shed well bedded with fresh straw is to be desired. Sheepare quite prone to septic infection, hence to attain successful re-sults infection must be strictly guarded against for several daysafter castration. Never operate during fly time. Animal Castration 131 CHAPTER X. CASTRATION OF THE DOG. Objects and Indications—The principal object to be attainedin castrating the dog is to deprive him of his nightly habit of visit-ing the society female members of the canine species in hisneighborhood and oftentimes in some other male dogs neighbor-hood. Castration has the direct and i

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