ANIMAL CASTRATION. 



CHAPTEK I. 



DEFINITION ITS VARIOUS PURPOSES AN OLD OPERATION 

 ITS HISTORY CASTRATION OF NECESSITY CASTRA- 

 TION OF FASHION AND CONVENIENCE ITS EFFECTS 

 UPON THE GENERAL ORGANISM UPON SOME SPECIAL 

 FUNCTION UPON THE DEVELOPMENT^ OF THE ANIMAL 

 AGE AT WHICH IT OUGHT TO BE PERFORMED SEA- 

 SON MOST FAVORABLE PREPARATION OF THE PATIENT 

 MODES OF RESTRAINT CASTING STANDING UP 

 ANATOMY OF THE PARTS. 



OF all the operations pertaining to the domain of 

 Veterinary Surgery, without doubt the practitioner 

 is most frequently called upon to perform more es- 

 pecially in breeding districts that of castration, the 

 destruction or removal of the essential organs of gen- 

 eration in our domesticated animals. It is, however, 



