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W. E. B. MILLER. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
CASTRATION. 
By W. E. B. Miller, D. V. S. 
A paper read before the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association. 
GENTLEMEN: —About ten days ago I received from your 
Corresponding Secretary, a programme of this meeting. On 
reading it over, I was surprised to find that I was put down at 
the head of the list of essayists, for a paper on Castration. It 
was the first intimation I had received that such was the case, 
or official notice that I was expected to prepare one for this 
meeting. 
At the meeting held in Scranton, when I had the honor to 
be selected by our honorable president to read a paper on this 
subject presented by Dr. T. B. Rogers, I remarked that I would 
like very much to reply to some of the statements made by him, 
but would refrain from doing so, in his absence, out of courtesy 
(professionally only). I did not know that the remark would be 
so construed, as to commit myself to the preparation of a paper 
for this meeting. If, however, your president and secretary have 
so construed, I presume I must be bound by their decision. 
Owing to the lack of time since intervening, I have been 
unable to prepare a paper entirely new, but will re-read one 
which I read before the Keystone Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion, a little over a year ago ; it having been somewhat revised 
and enlarged to suit the requirements of this occasion. It is not 
exactly what I would like to present before such an able and in¬ 
telligent body of men as I see before me to-day, and who con¬ 
stitute the membership of this association, but it is facts gleaned 
from a long, extended practice, in this especial line, and I trust 
it may be at least interesting, if not instructive. 
It will not be my purpose at this time, therefore, to advance 
any new theories, nor special methods for the performance of 
this, most common and, I think, the most useful of all the oper- 
