CASTRATION OF CRTPTORCHIDS. 
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inly an easily digested form of fat, without being the best fat by 
iny manner of means. This must be a matter regulated to meet 
the requirements of the individual animal. Tonics, nourishing 
food, cleanliness, pure air and comfort, are the essentials in this 
is well as other diseases. 
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CASTRATION OF CRYPTORCHIDS, 
By M. Jaooulet. 
{Continued from page 361.) 
The means employed for the removal of the testicle in ordi¬ 
nary operations of castration are not always available for appli¬ 
cation to the various cases of cryptorehidy. For example: if the 
operation is for either the inguinal or abdominal variety, the 
shortness of the cord may render the use of the straight or curved 
clamps quite impossible. Moreover, their application in abdom¬ 
inal cryptorehidy is more or less liable to cause an exaggerated 
traction of the cord, which may result in a hernia. 
Mr. Diriex and others apply a ligature to the cord, and either 
proceed to amputation at once, or depend upon the sloughing 
process for the final removal of the testicles. This method is 
often employed in preferer^e to that of the clamps, but is liable 
to the objection of being inapplicable to some of the varieties of 
the abnormality. And, moreover, itinvolves the danger arising 
from the presence of a foreign body in the wound, and the conse¬ 
quent interference with the course of cicatrization. And, again, 
it may lead to an access of peritonitis, when, after the dropping 
of the testicle, the cord is retracted and draws with it into the 
abdomen the ligature which retains its contact with it. 
For these reasons we prefer the method of direct division, as 
being of easier application and leaving no foreign body in the 
wound, and requiring no further surgical interference subsequent 
to the completion of the operation. 
Of the operations of the first rank, we prefer that of crush- 
