100 ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. 
ent methods of castration, are very much reduced, in fact can 
be entirely avoided, I very often perform castration, with anti- 
septic precautions, with brilliant results. For reasons, speci- 
fied in my special pamphlet regarding castration under anti- 
septic precautions (German periodical for Veterinary medi- 
cine and comp. Path. Vol. 14) I did not exactly adopt BAY- 
ER’S modus operandi, but adhered to the following useful 
method for private practice: 
The horse receives, half an hour before he is laid down, five 
decigrams of Morph. hydrochl. subcutaneously to reduce the 
sensibility, which is to the interest of the patient, (preventing 
fractures), as well as the surgeon and the method. After the 
horse is placed in a dorsal position, the scrotum and vicinity 
(penis, inner surface of thigh, etc.,) are thoroughly cleansed 
with soap and water with a sharp brush, and then rinsed off 
with lot of sublimate water one to one thousand or two thou- 
sand. The testicle is then taken hold of with the left hand in 
the usual manner, and the scrotum opened with one incision, 
just big enough to allow the testicle to pass through, (from 6 
to 7cm.). An assistant then immediately pours sublimate water 
on the protruding testicle, so as to make any possible appear- 
‘ing micro organisms harmless. Then the so-called mesentery 
of the testicles close by the epididymis is pushed through the 
center with the finger, and the two portions of the spermatic 
cord thus treated, are each ligated,*by tightly fastened threads 
of sublimated silk. To prevent the slipping off of these cords 
the testicle is cut off so that a small piece of the epididymis 
is left on the spermatic cord. These ligated stumps do not 
affect the antiseptic healing of the wound any, as they are 
(BAYER’S statement) aseptic, and as a consequence become 
simply resorbed. After the ligature threads are cut off short, 
the scrotal cavity is again thoroughly rinsed out with sub- 
limate water, and then the scrotal wound is sutured with from’ 
five to six sutures in such a way that the stitches commence 
about one and a half cm. from the wound’s edge, and simul- 
taneously get hold of the common tunica testis. The same 
procedure is gone through with the other testicle, and then 
