CHAPTER I. 



Castration of the Stallion, 



Objects and Indications — While the operation is most often practiced 

 as an economic procedure to increase the animal's value and usefulness to 

 mankind, it is nevertheless valuable as a corrector of many acquired vices, 

 such as masturbation, viciousness, etc. It is also indicated in impotency, 

 some diseases of the penis, scrotum, spermatic cord, and testicle. Its ef- 

 fect is both mental and physical. 



The operation has a decided tendency to render the animal quiet and 

 docile and to alter the conformation in some material respects, such as 

 lessening the development of the shoulders, clitst, neck and withers. While 

 on the otlier hand the development of tlie hind quarters is stimulated. 



Castrated stallions are known as aeldino's. 



1 — Stallion cast with Conkey self-locking buckle hobbles. Leg P being 

 drawn from over field of operation by rope R S. 



