GELDING, 275 



Directions for the Operation. 



CHAP. LVL 



GELDING. 



Gelding is an operation well known to most 

 persons, and there are many persons in this king- 

 dom who follow this part of the profession only. 



The usual method is to throw the horse dovvii 

 on some convenient spot, and turn him on his back, 

 then draw one of his hind legs forward towards 

 his neck, by which medns the practitioner will 

 have more room to perform the operation. Then 

 with a pair of flat barnacles, or pincers, take 

 hold of the scrotiim, make a section through it, 

 sufficient to admit the testicle being pressed out : 

 (This may be done either with a knife, or burnt 

 through with a hot firing-iron ; ) then apply the flat 

 nippers a little below the testicle, and hold it suf- 

 ficiently tight to prevent an overflow of blood ; the 



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