50 CASTRATION OF CRYPTORCHID HORSES. 



No. 11. — Before operation this pony was quite unmanageable 

 and on this account came into the present owner's hands for £'J. 

 Recovery was uneventful, and within a few months the animal 

 was regularly driven by a lady, and sold for £12, all its trouble- 

 some habits having disappeared. 



No. 13. — On the first occasion (6th July 1899), thinking it to 

 be an abnormally shaped testicle, I removed the epididymis 

 only, finding it at the extreme top of the inguinal canal. The 

 colt appeared quite cured of his troublesome habits for about 

 six months, and then became as bad as ever. In the spring 

 of 1901 the animal became quite unmanageable and dangerous, 

 and a further operation was decided upon. On the iSth of June 

 the abdomen was entered and a full-sized, flabby, testicle 

 extracted. Recovery was uneventful and the colt has since been 

 perfectly tractable and quiet. 



No. 15. — This animal had had its pelvis fractured some nine 

 months previously and the owner knew of the increased risk on 

 this account. After the operation it was found that the pelvis 

 was again displaced and, as the horse could not rise without 

 assistance, the owner decided to have it shot. 



No. 18. — This animal was an hermaphrodite, three years old, 

 of the Suffolk cart horse breed. ^ It possessed a small thin penis, 

 which measured (when extended) 9J inches long, and protruded 

 backwards in the perineal region in the usual situation of the 

 vagina in a mare. 



When in contact with another animal, either horse or mare, 

 the penis would become protruded and erect. Urination took 

 place through this organ, the stream being directed backwards. 

 There was no sign of scrotum, and in its place was a mammary 

 gland with well-developed teats. 



Thinking that the animal showed more male than female pro- 



' "Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics," Vol. XII., page 330 

 (P. Turner and F. Hobday). 



