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Identifier: veterinarynotesf00haye (find matches)
Title: Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Subjects: Horses Horses -- Diseases Horses -- Diseases
Publisher: London, England : Hurst and Blackett, Ltd.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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er shownin Fig. 163. The left testicle is taken in the left hand, and itsbase is squeezed, between the thumb and finger, so as to tightenthe skin over it. If there be difficulty in catching hold of thetesticle, the right hand may be used to aid the left. Frenchveterinary surgeons advise that, in such a case, an assistant should CASTRATING. 65 L lightly tai3 the muzzle of the horse with a switch or whip, so asto distract his attention, or he might be put slightly under theinfluence of chloroform. To overcome the action of the cremastermuscle, we should push the testicle forward, but not draw it back.The left testicle being held in the left hand, fingers pointing to therear, the operator should make, with a sharp and suitable knife, abold cut, parallel to the middle line, of about four inches in length,through the skin and coverings of the testicle, which ought tospring out through the opening thus effected. While making thecut, the operator can steady his hand by keeping the tip of the
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Fig. 164.—Horse ready to be made to lie down. thumb on the testicle. If the incision does not prove deep or longenough, a second or third one may be made. The cut should bewell forward, and as close as possible to the sheath without injuringit, so that any subsequent discharge may readily drain off. It doesnot veiy much signify if the testicle be wounded. The testiclein its natural state is covered by skin and by an innercoat (peritoneum), the surface of which, next the testicle, issmooth and Histenino- as it is a serous membrane. This serouspouch in which the testicle lies, contains, in health, a greater orless quantity of watery fluid, which may squirt out when the in-cision is made. We may find, as a result of previous inflammation,the testicle adhering to its covering of peritoneum, which in such 652 OPERATIONS. a case will have lost its serous character, and will have becomefibrous. If, on opening the scrotum, hernia be observed to bepresent, the covered operation (p. 654) shou

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