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CASTRATION OF CRYPTORCHID HORSES. 



view, and the ecraseur had to be introduced up the inguinal 

 canal in order to get the chain over it. 



No. 27.— This animal was a freak of nature and had no 

 testes at all. It was a valuable thoroughbred belonging to a 

 well-known nobleman, in whose stud it was bred, and had 

 been sent to Newmarket for training. It had always shown 

 a want of development of the penis, and this organ had never 

 been "drawn," the urine always coming in contact with the 

 prepuce when it was passed. No signs of either testicle were 



Fig. 20.1 



Abnormal geni to-urinary organs of thoroughbred colt. 



1, 1. Small ni.isses of fat in the position of the testicles ; 2. Urinary bladder : 3, :'.. Vebicnlw 



seiTtinales. 



present externally, and the horse had never been seen to show 

 any sexual desire, the animal being of an usually quiet 

 disposition. 



The inguinal canals were explored without result and the 

 abdomen entered. No trace of anything with the characteristic 

 form or feel of testicles could be detected during an hour and 

 a half's careful search. The wounds were then sutured and 

 restoratives applied, but death occurred about eight hours 

 later from exhaustion fthe bones of the spine were afterwards 

 boiled to make sure that no fracture existed). 



1 "Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics," Vol XIII., page 75. 



