ANIMAL CASTRATION. 



CHAPTBE I. 



DEFINITION — IT8VAEI0US PUEPOSES — AN OLD OPEEATION 

 — ITS HISTOBY — CASTEATION OF NECESSITY — CASTEA- 

 TION OF FASHION AND CONVENIENCE — ITS EFFECTS — 

 UPON THE GENEEAL OEGANISM — UPON SOME SPECIAL 

 FUNCTION — UPON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANIMAL 

 — AGE AT WHICH IT OUGHT TO BE PEEFOEMED — SEA- 

 SON MOST FATOEABLE — PEEPAEATION OF THE PATIENT 

 — MODES OF EESTEAINT — CASTING — STANDING UP — 

 ANATOMY OF THE PAETS. 



Of all the operations pertaining to tlie domain of 

 Veterinary Surgery, without doubt the practitioner 

 is most frequently called upon to perform — more es- 

 pecially in breeding districts — that of castration, the 

 destruction or removal of the essential organs of gen- 

 eration in our domesticated animals. It is, however, 



