30 ANIMAL CASTRATION 



This incision, skillfully made, reaches through all of 

 the scrotal wall down to the testicle, yet should not 

 penetrate the testicle proper nor injure the gland. 

 Care in this particular not only minimizes the pain 

 of the subject but in the mature animal obviates the 

 otherwise inevitable result of hemorrhage. If done 

 with care, a moderate degree of traction may be ex- 

 erted upon the testicle to cause relaxation of the cre- 

 master muscle, but undue force used in such cases may 

 result in rupture not only to the attachments of the 

 CT-emaster muscle, but to the spermatic vessels as well, 

 and this occuning within the abdominal cavity causes 

 hemorrhage into the peritoneal cavity, with fatal re- 

 sults. Jn some cases the power of contraction of the 

 cremaster muscle is so well developed that it resists 

 the efforts of the operator to draw out the cord, and 

 in such cases it is wise to work slowly, holding the 

 cord for a sufficient length of time until muscular re- 

 laxation occurs. The use of quick force is to be 

 avoided, as said before. rThe emasculator is then ap- 

 plied as close to the scrotum as possible, and the cord 

 and the lower part of the vaginal tunic is severed 

 there. Hemostasia is not aided by 1he slow closing of 

 the emasculator, and because this deliberation only 

 adds to the pain of the operation, it should also be 

 avoided. 



Subsequent to emasculation, the scrotal wound may 

 he enlarged to prevent 1he retention cf any wound 

 secretion or infective disturbnnces. Another method 

 of providing for the free escape of wound secretion 

 consists in the making of an incision through the 

 scrotal wall beginning at the median portion of the 

 margin, carrying the incision away at a right angle 

 fiom the median raphe for a distance of about an 

 inch or an inch and a half. 



