WHAT I SAW AT OMAHA. 
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bringing - to light something that to most of us appeared to be 
the cord ; but through some then unknown cause the testicle 
failed to follow. Dr. Cosford worked very hard and he should 
be complimented on his level head and steady nerve. When 
repeated attempts to bring the testicle forward failed, he asked 
Dr. Vincent, of Shenandoah, Iowa, who stood immediately be¬ 
hind him, if that was not the cord. Dr. Vincent in reply said : 
“ No, any one that has ever had the cord in his hand should 
know better,” or something to that effect. Dr. Cosford at once 
released his hold upon the object in question and proceeded 
once more to explore the “ lower regions,” but, in spite of it all, 
the same portion of the horse’s anatomy was brought to light. 
After repeated failures, Dr. Cosford requested Dr. Vincent to 
put his hand in there and ascertain whether or not that was 
the cord. Dr. Vincent at once proceeded. After throwing off 
his coat and rolling up his sleeves, he took possession of the 
subject. Passing his hand into the canal he uttered these 
words : u In the first place, you are not working with the proper 
hand. You should go in with the right hand for the right seed 
and the left hand for the left seed.” Next he said : “You have 
torn such a Iiole in here that when this horse gets up the guts 
will come down. The guts are now staring me in the face.” 
Of course such professional and scientific expressions took the 
breath out of the entire assembly. Some of the boys’ hats blew 
off as the result of this unexpected gush of gas. He then con¬ 
tinued and secured what looked to all of us like the cord, ap¬ 
plied the ecraseurand removed the structure in question, claim¬ 
ing it to be the testicle. He proceeded at once to give us a free 
lecture on ridgling castration, telling us of the great, great 
many he had operated on, and the very, very insignificant losses 
he had met with. I shall let you imagine the effect that all of 
this had on the clinic class. The majority of us turned our 
backs upon the orator, and some of us proceeded at once to dis¬ 
sect the so-called testicle and found it to be nothing but a sec¬ 
tion of the spermatic cord. We, knowing that the testicle was 
not removed, knew that it must still be in the abdominal cavity. 
