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tion is that which is applied to all cases of that trail 

 matic affection. 



AMAUROSIS. 



This disease may also be included among those 

 classed as the sequelae of castration, having been 

 known to follow cases where hemorrhage of the 

 small testicular artery had occurred. Tonic treat- 

 ment internally and local stimulating applications 

 may sometimes relieve this complication, but it will 

 generally be admitted to be incurable. 



COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE VARIOUS MODES OF 

 CASTRATION. 



The process by simple excision, by reason of the 

 hemorrhage which necessarily accompanies it, though 

 not inevitably dangerous, must be excluded from the 

 domain of general practice. 



That of scraping the cord has not, so far as our 

 knowledge extends, been sufficiently tested, either 

 in European or American practice, to justify its rec- 

 ommendation. 



The process of torsion leloiv the epididymis is too 

 much subject to the development of champignon, as 

 well as that of free torsion with the hands, to be ad- 

 mitted by judicious operators, while the limited tor- 

 sion is a method which has taken rank amongst safe 

 operators, notwithstanding the enormous swelling of 

 the parts by which it is commonly accompanied, and 

 the necessity it involves of the introduction of the 



