THE TREATMENT OF GLANDERS. 
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his four legs together, in such a manner that the hind legs may- 
approach as much as possible to the fore ones, but without 
punishing the animal too much. The wool is then plucked away 
from the testicles. Some whip-cord, two inches in length, 
is then taken, with a piece of wood, two inches and a half long, 
at each end. This, having been disposed in the form of the knot 
for bleeding, is passed round the scrotum, above the epididymes; 
and then while one assistant holds the ram in order to prevent him 
from moving, two others grasp, each of them, one of the pieces of 
wood, and, pulling together, and each with all his strength, and 
putting their feet against each other in order to increase their 
power, they draw the knot as tight as possible, so as to arrest 
completely the circulation of the blood below the ligature, and 
yet not to cut through the spermatic cords. Over the first 
knot they place a second, simple and straight, and draw that 
also as tight as they can. The operation being ended, the legs 
are liberated, the penis is drawn out of its sheath, into which 
it had been forcibly retracted, and the sheep is placed upon its 
legs. Three days afterwards the testicles are cut off an inch 
below the knot. 
2. The Bull . — In some of the departments of France the 
gelders castrate young bulls of three years old in a somewhat 
similar way. They attach a kind of side-line to one of the hocks, 
and bring it round the neck : they then tie the whip-cord as 
tightly as possible round the scrotum, and, that being done, 
cut off the testicles. 
3. Pigs not more than six weeks old are castrated by means 
of the ligature ; but the spermatic cord is previously uncovered. 
4. Dogs and Cats are castrated by means of the ligature. The 
cords are exposed, the ligature tightly drawn, and the testicles 
immediately cut off. 
[To be continued.] 
The Treatment of Glanders. 
By Professor Rodet, of Toulouse. 
PROFEssoRRodetis the author of a most valuable work entitled 
“ Doctrine Physiologique appliquee a la Medecine Veterinaire.” 
Some interesting papers, inserted in former numbers of this Jour- 
nal, on “ Insanity in the domesticated animals,” were taken in an 
abridged form from that publication. 
One of the memoirs — for the work consists of a series of them — 
contains the result of certain experiments which he made as to 
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