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by what he considered a more practical method. His method 
was, one-half hour before operating, the animal was given .5 
grammes hydrochlorate of morphine. The animal was placed 
upon his back, and the scrotum, sheath, inner thighs and neigh¬ 
boring parts washed with soap and water. This was rinsed off 
with sublimate solution, i-iooo, then an incision was made in 
the scrotum, barely large enough to allow the testicle to be 
pressed out; when the testicle was exposed, an assistant poured 
sublimate solution over it. The testicular cord was perforated 
just anterior to the vas deferens, making two portions, and li¬ 
gated each portion firmly with sublimated silk. To prevent the 
ligature slipping off, a part of the epididymis was allowed to re¬ 
main on the cord, when the testicle was excised. This, he says, 
is aseptic and is resorbed. The scrotal sac was washed out with 
sublimate solution and the wound closed with sutures. The 
operation was repeated upon the opposite side, and the animal 
allowed to rise, when the scrotum was again washed with subli¬ 
mate solution. The instruments used and the operator’s hands 
were disinfected with sublimate solution, i-iooo. There oc- 
cnrred in most of his cases, on the second or third day after op¬ 
erating, a fever, which, he says, may attain 103.6° F., but which 
was due to aseptic resorption fever and can be differentiated 
from septic fever, as the animal is bright and eats well in the 
former, while in the latter there is dullness and no appetite. 
But in comparison with the results obtained here, it would ap¬ 
pear that, where the temperature ran up as high as 103.6° F., 
there was infection, as is illustrated by case No. IV. Here the 
animal was bright; but from the clot there was obtained a pure 
culture of staphylococats pyogenes anreus. The only complica¬ 
tion which followed his operation was bleeding, which some¬ 
times appeared after the horse had risen. Frick thinks this is 
subcutaneous, and says that it does not interfere with healing 
unless it is abundant so as to press the edges of the wound apart 
and that hematomata the size of a child’s head are readily ab¬ 
sorbed. 
If larger hematomata appear, the sutures should be taken 
