62 ANIMAL CASTRATION. 



(Fig. 17), the thumb resting on the back of the cord, 

 and the remaining fingers in front of it, while the 

 right hand, placed in pronation, pinches the inferior 



FIG. 17. 



DOUBLE SUBCUTANEOUS TORSION IN CATTLE. 



Position of the left hand at the beginning of the second step. 



part of the scrotum. Maintaining these dispositions, 

 the testicles are displaced by the simultaneous action 

 of both hands, the left pushing the cord from above 

 downwards and from before backwards, in such a 

 manner as to depress as much as possible the supe- 

 rior extremity of the gland, while with the fingers of 

 the right hand, resting by their dorsal face against 

 the posterior part of the testicle (Fig. 18), the inferior 

 extremity of that organ is pushed upwards. With- 

 out losing hold of the envelope, the movement of this 

 hand gives way to these opposite and simultaneous 

 pressures, that of the left hand tending to lower the 



