CASTRATION. 471) 
placing them one above the other, he forces the testicle as near 
as he can to the inguinal ring. 
He proceeds in the same manner with the other testicle, and 
he terminates his operation by passing the cord of worsted and 
hemp several times round the scrotum and below the testicles, 
and securing it with a double knot. The cord should be drawn 
tightly enough to keep on the scrotum, but not to cut through 
it, or even to wound it. If it were to slip off the scrotum, the 
testicles would descend, and the spermatic cord would be un- 
twisted ; and if the scrotum were to be cut through, the support 
of the testicle would be lost. The principal art of the operation 
consists in the application and the security of this ligature. 
The animal may now be released. 
This mode of castration requires no previous preparation or after 
treatment, especially if the patient is at grass. The inflammatory 
engorgement that follows is very slight ; it is no more than is ne- 
cessary for the prompt and complete obliteration of the spermatic 
cords. The ligature round the bottom of the scrotum may be 
removed forty-eight hours after the operation. It is rare that 
any accident follows this mode of castration. 
If the ligature should have come off soon after the operation, 
or the torsion should have been incomplete, the testicles will 
resume their natural situation ; and a new operation must be pro- 
ceeded on, unless a considerable enlargement of the cords should 
have supervened, when it will be impossible to twist them again 
until the inflammation shall have subsided. If, however, the 
cords should remain for a considerable time large and hard, it 
will be necessary to have recourse to castration with the clams* 
and in the uncovered way. 
2. The Ram and the Goat . — The bistournage is performed on 
both these animals, if they have not been deprived of their 
organs of generation, a little while after their birth, and when the 
testicles have attained a certain stage of development. The 
operation is very easily performed. An assistant, sitting, takes 
the animal between his kness. After having thrown him on his 
back, he manages to hold the two legs on either side in each 
hand. The operator, standing before him, proceeds in precisely 
the same manner which has been already described. 
[To be continued.] 
The London Veterinary Medical Society. 
We understand that no compromise or approach to reconcilia 1 - 
tion has taken place; but that it is the intention of the present 
Committee of Management, that the Meetings of the Society 
shall, in future, be held at the residence of Mr. Vines. 
