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those of the other mode, usually subside after tlie 

 first hour following the operation, and as a rule 

 require but little treatment more than that of the 

 walking exercise. This sort of pain having subsided, 

 the only further trouble likely to be noticed is the 

 local trouble resulting from the lesion to which the 

 testicular region has been subjected. Resulting 

 from this local lesion, as well as from the rough 

 manipulations attending the various steps of the 

 different procedures, a peculiar stiffness will be 

 observed in the motion of the animal. This may be 

 referred either to the local pain proper, to the 

 dragging to which the cord has been subjected, or to 

 the presence of the clamps, which, resting closely 

 in the groin, necessarily more or less impede the 

 action of locomotion. 



Hemorrhage may also occur immediately after the 

 operation, either while the patient is still on the 

 ground or as soon as he regains his feet. This may 

 be due either to the solution of continuity at the 

 edges of the wound of the envelopes or may proceed 

 from the small testicular or the spermatic artery. 

 The first two causes of hemorrhage need not engage 

 our attention, usually ceasing spontaneously, and 

 never being attended with serious inconvenience. 

 It is not so, however, in the case of hemorrhage pro- 

 ceeding from the spermatic blood vessel proper, 

 occurring after those methods of operating which 

 dispense with the closing of the artery by artificial 

 appliances, as is done with the clamp or the ligature, 

 or which may be observed in castration by torsion. 



