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ANl.MAL CASTRATION 



queiice the testicle will follow. The spermatic cord is now severed and its 

 stump replaced in the abdominal cavity. If it be a double cryptorchid 

 (both testicles undescended) both testicles should be removed through the 

 one abdominal incision. The al)dominal wall should now be closed with 

 three interrupted sutures. (Fig. 88.) These sutures should be what is 

 known as the through-and-through variety — all layers of the abdominal 

 wall should be included in them. 



After-Care — The animal should be confined for eight or nine days in a 



Fig. 89 — Ruptured boar. 



small, clean pen ; during which jieriod the diet should be limited. Nature 

 will ordinarilv take care of removal of the sutures. 



CASTRATION OF TIJE RITPTURED BOAR 



Scrotal hernia (rupture) in the boar occurs invariably and directly as a 

 result of dilatation or enlargement of the internal abdominal ring. The 

 anatomical function of the internal abdominal ring is to allow the .sper- 

 matic cord to pass from the alxloniiiud cavity into the inguinal canal and 

 at the same time prevent the ])assage of any portion of the intestines 

 escaping from the cavity into that canal. 



Causes — The cxj^erience of others and my own observation lead me to 



