Veterinary medicine, animal castration, surgery and obstetrics simplified . rough the scrotum. Make thefirst two cuts through the skin on each side, then cut throughthe fibrous tissue. Now let go the sheath and force the tes-ticles (which will have a white covering called the tunica)through the opening, holding it firmly between your thumband finger, make a free cut with the knife through this white 154 CASTRATION. covering when the testicle will be exposed. Should the tes-ticles be large and well developed, as is often the case, it willnot be necessary to take hold of the sheath, but simply g
Veterinary medicine, animal castration, surgery and obstetrics simplified . rough the scrotum. Make thefirst two cuts through the skin on each side, then cut throughthe fibrous tissue. Now let go the sheath and force the tes-ticles (which will have a white covering called the tunica)through the opening, holding it firmly between your thumband finger, make a free cut with the knife through this white 154 CASTRATION. covering when the testicle will be exposed. Should the tes-ticles be large and well developed, as is often the case, it willnot be necessary to take hold of the sheath, but simply graspthe lower testicle between thumb and fingers with a stronghold making one sweeping cut with the knife exposing thetesticle at one or two cuts. Take hold of the testicle with theleft hand draw it out gently and should the white coveringform a sack like co?er around the cord, as is often the case,you are to introduce the knife carefully by the side of thecord and cut open this sack down toward the horses body asfar as you can handily and take the ccraseur in your right. [the hand and pass the chain over the testicle well down to thebody around both the spematic cord and a part of the whitecovering, now take up the slack of your chain as quickly aspossible. Look now and see that there is nothing betweenthe chain and cord, the white covering being next to the in-strument; now turn the instrument until you feel that thechain is very tight or commencing to crush, then stop loDgenough to count six, make a half turn, count six, another halfturn, count six; continue this turning and counting until thechain has been drawn into, not through, the loop of theinstrument, this you can tell by the instrument turning moreeasily ardby the feeling at the end. You will now grasp the tes-ticle with the left hand and pull it off, holding the instrum* ntwell up against the horse with the right hand while you pull. CASTRATION. 155 You will now remove the other testicle in the same manne
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