CASTRATION OP THE STALIJON 



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There are many designs of emaseulators on the American niarlvet ; how- 

 ever, many of them are inferior and unsatisfactory, both in design and 

 workmanship. In order for an emasculator to perform the task for which 

 it is intended it must first of all be constructed with straight cutting and 



t^ig- 6 — The Betz triple-crimp emasculator. (Front view.) 



Straight crimping- or crushing edges. (D, C, Fig. 3.) This simply means 

 that the lower or female jaw must be on a straight line. When thus con- 

 structed the cord is grasped and cruslied before it is severed. Any emascu- 

 lator made with curved cutting and curved crimping edges (A, B, Pig. 4), 



Fig. 7 — The Betz tuple cump emasculator. (Back view.) 



which means that the lower or female .jaws are curved, is uot dependa- 

 ble in controlling hemorrhage, hence is unsafe and unsatisfactory. Fig. 5 

 illustrates a "single-crimp" emasculator of x)roper design and good con- 

 struction. 



The triple-crimp emasculator is somcwliat safer in controlling hemor- 

 rage than the single-crimp instrument, as the latter crushes the cord in 

 three directions. Tlie author has used a triple-crimp instrument for sev- 



