American Veterinary Review, 
APRIL, 1893. 
EDITORIAL 
Castration of Ridglings. —With this first number of 
our seventeenth volume we have begun the publication of 
the translation of a small pamphlet on the castration of cryp- 
torchids, from the pen of Prof. F. Mauri, of the veterinary 
school of Toulouse. The subject is one which possesses, we 
think, sufficient interest to justify the labor of translation and 
reprinting, and will well repay the time bestowed on its study. 
In the first or introductory part, the attention of the 
reader is called to a sufficiently complete and comprehensive 
history of the operation on the European continent; and it is 
to be regretted that a similar history of the operation for our 
own continent cannot as yet be written, and is waiting for the 
accumulation of materials before it can be undertaken. If 
“Farmer Miles ” is, as we believe him to be, the father of this 
operation on this continent, his method and his wonderful 
success ought to be fully recorded in our veterinary journals 
for the instruction and enlightenment of our rapidly growing 
army of young veterinarians. 
In his introduction. Professor Mauri does more than to 
merely write this history. It also contains hints of immense 
value to the professors of surgery in our various colleges. The 
