CASTRATION OF THE CRYPTORCHID. 
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Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association.— 
The eighth annual meeting of this Association will be held in 
Chicago on the 5 th and 6 th of November. A number of in¬ 
teresting papers are to be presented, among them “ Scrofu¬ 
lous Ostitis in Foals, 5 ’ “Castration of the Horse,” “ Infectious 
Abortion in Mares,” “ Navicular Disease and Neurotomy,” 
“ Parturient Eclampsia in the Mare,” “ Simple Fever followed 
by Purpura,” and many others. Also Reports of Cases of 
unusual interest. 
ORIGINAL, ARTICLES. 
CASTRATION OF THE CRYPTORCHID, 
By R. Middleton, A.B., D.Y.S., Stuttgart, Germany. 
The castration of cryptorchids has lately again become the 
theme of literary discussion, and is one of the subjects minutely 
described by Bang in his Surgery. The numerous occur¬ 
rences of cryptorchismus in draught horses can easily account 
for the fact that this operation is often resorted to in France, 
Belgium and Denmark; while in Germany, the northern low¬ 
lands excepted, we are seldom offered the opportunity of col¬ 
lecting extensive experience on this subject. Therefore it has 
been erroneously viewed as a doubtful undertaking when per¬ 
formed upon horses of English and Arabian descent. 
The communicated observations upon the coarser animals 
by veterinarians in the above countries prove the opposite ; in 
the last year I myself have had sufficient proof that the under¬ 
taking in full-bred horses is practicable. The various methods 
