100 SPRINGTIME SURGERY 



The patient was given the following treatment : 

 Nucleinic acid (yeast) grs. xii 



Sodium chloride grs. vi 



Sodium bicarbonate grs. v 



Phenol m. ii 



Aqua destillata oz. i 



Mix, filter and give hypodermically one dram 

 twice daily in an equal quantity of normal saline 

 solution. In one week the animal was well and 

 ready for work and medication was discontinued. 

 As the testicles, if developed, were in the ab- 

 dominal cavity, their removal was planned for a 

 third operation, but never attempted because not 

 necessitated by the changed disposition of the ani- 

 mal which strangely enough from the first opera- 

 tion became docile and began to grow and fatten 

 until now it weighs more than 1,300 pounds. It 

 can be turned loose or worked with other horses 

 with satisfaction, and is a beast of burden equal 

 to a mule. How are we to explain the loss of 

 sexual desire without the removal of either testi- 

 cles or ovaries? 



