PRACTICAL CRYPTORCHID CASTRATION 71 



had occasion to use it in cryptorchids and have 

 repeatedly used it in spaying mares. 



Young patients are much more satisfactory to 

 operate upon than older ones. One should, in 

 studying the operation, select untouched year- 

 lings or two-year-olds for his first patients, the 

 yearlings being preferable to the two-year-olds. 



Complicating conditions in young patients are 

 exceedingly rare; in older ones they are much 

 more common. Adhesions, hyperplastic and 

 cystic testicles and the partially descended and 

 strangulated testicles are all results of age. Older 

 animals are more difficult to confine properly and 

 being more liable to present complicating con- 

 ditions are more apt to suffer from the accidents 

 of the operation. 



To the beginner I would recommend that he 

 select a young patient, and before operating care- 

 fully map out his plan of procedure. Nothing 

 counts like system and nothing succeeds like the 

 uniformly systematic man. 



