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otlttrwise tlie twiteli as an implement of subjection is not a success and, 

 of course, the violent struggles and etrorts to escape on the part of the 

 animal would make the operation a failure. I realize that in making the 

 above statement I run counter to some eminent authorities, but since I 

 have never yet seen a single snceessful operator on stallions in the stand- 

 ing posture who procrastinated to tJie extent of disinfecting the field of 

 oi)eration immediately prior to ojierating, 1 am ready and willing to suffer 



Fig. 19 — Side view showing position of patient and operator castrating in 



tlie standing posture. 



the consequences. .Sucli procedure is not practicable, neither is it necessary 

 or even desirable. If the operator's hands are clean and his instruments 

 sterile, there is not nearly the danger of septic infection from the un- 

 washed scrotum that there is from a bunglesome and imperfect operation 

 on account of struggles on the part of the animal occasioned by delay in 

 beginning and finishing tlie operation. 



Operative Teclmic — Witli the twitch api)lied and the animal forced into 

 the corner of a box stall or fence, the operator approaches from the left 

 side — if he be riglit-handed — at the same time instructing the assistant, who 



