CHAPTEE VI. 



CASTRATION OP FEMALES OB OVARIOTOMY — HISTORY — ■ 

 INDICATIONS — EFFECTS UPON THE ORGANISM AND 

 SPECIAL FUNCTIONS — ADVANTAGES IN COWS — CON- 

 DITIONS FAVORABLE TO THE OPERATION— ANATOMY 

 — MODUS OPERANDI — BY THE FLANKS — CHARLIER's 

 PROCESS — INSTRUMENTS — VARIOUS STEPS — DIVISION 

 OP THE VAGINA — SEIZING THE OVARY — TWISTING IT 

 OFF — COMPLICATIONS — HEMORRHAGE— PERITONITIS 

 ABSCESS OF THE PELVIC CAVITY — CONSTIPATION — 

 SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHiSEMA — CASTRATION OP THE 

 SMALL ANIMALS — OF SWINE — OP SLUTS — OP FOWLS. 



As I Lave stated before, the revival of the opera- 

 tion of castration upon large females is dae to a 

 Louisiana farmer, Thomas Winn, who, in the year 

 1831, castrated several of his cows. 



Without entering npon the history which includes 

 ft record of the faihires and successes attendant upon 

 the introduction of the operation, it roay suiSce to 

 Bay that until the improvements made by Charlier 

 hi the manipulations involved in the operation, it 

 encoantered considerable opposition, and it is within 



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