CHAPTEE II. 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE METHODS THREE CLASSES 

 FIRST, IMMEDIATE AMPUTATION SECOND, AMPUTA- 

 TION AFTER APPLICATION OF HEMOSTATIC MEANS 

 UPON THE CORD THIRD, WITHOUT AMPUTATION, BUT 

 DESTRUCTION OF SECRETING POWER OF THE ORGAN 

 SIMPLE EXCISION SCRAPING TEARING AND TOR- 

 SION TORSION FREE AND LIMITED ABOVE OR 

 BELOW THE EPIDIDYMIS LINEAR CRUSHING FIRING. 



THE methods of performing the operation of cas- 

 tration may be variously classified, though in each 

 class a varying number of modes will come under 

 our notice. 



The first class will include the operations by which, 

 the envelopes having been cut through, the vaginal 

 sac opened and the testicle exposed, the organ is 

 separated by an immediate section of the cord. A 

 number of different processes are included under 

 this head, among which are those of scraping, of tear- 

 ing, of torsion, of linear crushing, or by the ecraseur> 

 and of firing, or the actual cautery. 



