Castration of Cryptorchids * 



By W. L. WILLIAMS, V. S., Professor of Surgery and 



Obstetrics in tlie New York State Veterinary College, 



Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, author of 



"Veterinary Obstetrics," "Surgical and 



Obstetric Operations," etc. 



It is generally considered advisable to castrate 

 all male domestic animals which are to be regu- 

 larly used for work or as human food. However 

 true this may be of normal males, it is empha- 

 sized in most cases of cryptorchids or hidden 

 testes. 



It is especially desirable that the cryptorchid, 

 or the monorchid, be castrated, in order that he 

 may not be used for breeding purposes, because 

 he may largely transmit the defect to his off- 

 spring. In addition to this, the abdominal testicle 

 usually induces a perverted sexual desire, closely 

 analogous to the nymphomania of the female. 



♦Reprinted from the Missouri Valley Veterinary Bulletin, April, 1910. 



