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castrated these horns will never grow, in which he becomes similar to 

 the doe 1 . 



In the dissection of a spayed sow the vagina was very small, was 

 thin in its coats, and pale. The rugae were very faint, became smaller 

 and smaller upwards, and at last terminated in a blind point. This 

 shows that in spaying they cut off the horns of the uterus, or rather 

 the whole of the uterus. 



It is hardly possible to fatten a boar. A bull has not nearly the 

 same fat as a cow or an ox. The perfect female is not so easily fattened 

 as a spayed one, excepting she be with young. In the castrated state 

 the mind is perfectly at ease, and accumulation takes place ; for when- 

 ever an animal, whether male or female, arrives at a certain degree of 

 health and strength, their mind or constitution is immediately turned 

 upon venery ; in the male sooner than in the female ; therefore she 

 fattens more. A castrated and a spayed animal seem both to be in the 

 same state with regard to the animal economy. 



The following I had from Mr. Hutchins [collar-maker], who kills 

 and disposes of from two to three hundred horses in a year. A stone- 

 horse has but very little fat in comparison with a gelding or a mare. 

 The fat of a stone -horse is not so solid as that of a gelding or mare, 

 and is mostly diffused; but the fat of a gelding is mostly on the out- 

 side under the skin, whilst that of a mare is mostly in the abdomen. 



Case of the Testes not producing their Influence on the Constitution. 



A man, 27 years of age, came into St. George's Hospital with a sore 

 leg. While in the hospital it was discovered that his testes were very 

 small and soft. I examined them and found them as related to me. 

 I then asked him the following questions : — First, whether they had 

 ever been larger ? His answer was they never had. Secondly, if ever 

 he had any desire for a woman ? Answer : he never had. Thirdly, if 

 ever he had an erection ? Answer : he never had. Fourthly, if he 

 played with or touched the end of the penis, if it ever gave him any 

 pleasing sensation ? His answer was, it never did more than any other 

 part. 



1 [If this be meant for the fallow-deer ( Cervus Dama), it is not a constant se- 

 quence. In a male fawn from which the testes, but not the spermatic chords, were 

 removed, antlers were developed and shed annually ; but they were smaller and were 

 retained longer than in the perfect buck. See my Osteological Catalogue, Mus. 

 Coll. of Surgeons, 4to. 1853, p. 590. No. 3559. " Antlers shed by the above ' hevier' 

 when he was five years old, in Oulton Park, Cheshire : presented by Sir Philip de 

 M. Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P."] 



