In the summer of 1895 I castratedsome flowers of O.
If this operation is done on all the individuals of one variety, sparing all the panicles of the other, it is manifest that all the plants will become fertilized by the latter, and hence that the castrated plants will only bear hybrid seeds.
The story of the self-mutilation of Attis is clearly an attempt to account for the self-mutilation of his priests, who regularlycastrated themselves on entering the service of the goddess.
Robert describes an old man who suckled a child, and Meyer discusses the case of a castrated man who was said to suckle children.
This man acted under an uncontrollable impulse to mutilate himself, and claimed that until he castrated himself he had no peace of mind.
The author of "Faustin, or le Siecle Philosophique," remarked that there were more than 4000 castrated individuals among the ecclesiastics and others of Italy.
Conversely, the same thing is evident, more or less plainly, with castrated males.
Lastly, as I am informed by Mr. Blyth, the mature male of the beautifully coloured and spotted axis deer is considerably darker than the female: and this hue the castrated male never acquires.
Now it is a remarkable fact that, in the castrated male, as Mr. Blyth informs me, the horns are of the same peculiar shape as in the female, but longer and thicker.
This animal does not emit its strong odour until more than a year old, and if castrated whilst young never emits it.
Note: The castrated male is called a steer until it attains its full growth, and then, an ox; but if castrated somewhat late in life, it is called a stag.
Defn: The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so.
The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
Defn: A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old.
Defn: A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
We refer to the relations as found in the child, in the woman, and in the castrated male.
But some flowers of the Painted Lady, castrated at an early age, were fertilised with pollen from the Purple sweet-pea; and it should be remembered that these varieties differ in nothing except in the colour of their flowers.
As pollen is deposited at a very early age on the pistil, generally in contact with the stigma, some flowers whilst still in bud were castrated for my first experiment, and were afterwards fertilised with pollen from a distinct plant.
As showing the efficiency of bees, I may add that Mr. Crocker castrated some young flowers and left them uncovered; and these produced as many seeds as the unmutilated flowers.
All those who have long attended to hybridisation, insist in the strongest terms on the liability of castrated flowers to be fertilised by pollen brought from distant plants of the same species.
It is a still more remarkable fact that in the castrated male, as Mr. Blyth informs me, the horns are of the same peculiar shape as in the female, but longer and thicker.
Lastly, the mature male of the beautifully coloured and spotted Axis deer is considerably darker, as I am informed by Mr. Blyth, than the female; and this hue the castrated male never acquires.
Then this calf is not castrated if a bull, nor put to the plough if it is a cow, and when it dies they will not take off its hide for sale but bury it with the hide on.
A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old.
Moll, explains the preference of some women for castrated men as due, not merely to the absence of risk of impregnation, but to the prolonged erections that take place in the castrated.
But when the testicular substance of actively sexual frogs was injected into the castrated frogs it exerted an elective action on the sexual reflex, sometimes in a few hours, but the action is, Steinach concludes, first central.
These changes cease on castration, but, if the testes of other frogs are introduced beneath the skin of the castrated frogs, Nussbaum found that they acted as if the frog had not been castrated.
This province, besides Assyria (the ancient seat of sultan glory), delivered 500 castrated boys per annum to the king of Persia.
In the Frankish middle age, the merchants of Verdun castrated persons to sell them in Spain.
If in the castrated female a testicle is planted, the masculine traits become much more marked and striking.
The results of the experiments and observations can be summed up as follows: if the male individual is castrated before puberty, that is, before the advent of the sexual life, secondary sex qualities do not develop.
Now, if in the castrated male is transplanted an ovary, the positive characteristics of the female are evoked, such as enlarged mammary glands, and a tendency to secretion of milk.
In short, thecastrated male takes on a feminine type, and the castrated female, a male type.
It may be added that there was nothing to choose between the performances of the stallions and geldings; though the fact that the latter had so recently been castrated was held to make their achievement the more creditable.
To arrive at a solution of the latter question, one hundred of the men were mounted on entires and the other hundred on horses which had been castrated only six months previously, regardless of age, for the purpose of making the experiment.
For this reason, in persons who have been castrated at the same age, the subsequent course of development may vary to some degree, notwithstanding the apparent identity of the determining factor in each case.
But I do not imagine that any one of you is ignorant, either of what the prince of all historians, Herodotus, has related of the Chian Panionium, and of what he justly suffered who castratedfree boys and sold them.
The ancients castrated the young wild boars, which they could get from their mothers, and then returned them again into the woods, where they soon grew fat, and their flesh was much better than that of domestics hogs.
He is then sent to fatten among the old goats, and castrated kids which have been emasculated at six months old, to render their flesh more juicy and tender.
The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so.
I can now therefore readily understand that in former times, when the choir was much better, this must have made an immense impression upon foreigners who had never heard pure vocal music and the voices of castrated persons.
It is unsafe to expose castrated animals to cold, damp, chilly weather.
Young calves may be castrated in the standing position or when cast and held on the side.
The colt is usually castrated when he is one year old, and the calf, pig and lamb when a few weeks or a few months of age.
It is sufficiently obvious why the castrated were specially charged with the duty of serving females in a menial capacity.
Chinese history" was castrated for criticizing the reigning Emperor in the course of issuing his great work; and so late as the fifth century A.
Very interesting observations on changes in the plumage of castratedfowl have recently been made by Goodale.
This has been proved definitely by Steinach,[199] who showed that when young rats are castrated certain secondary sexual characters are not fully developed.
Giard has studied the effects of a curious form of castration brought about by parasites, which is followed by a change in the sexual character of the castrated animal.
Soon after the transplantation of ovaries into a castrated male the nipples of its mammary glands begin to grow to the large size which they have in the female and by which the two sexes can easily be discriminated.
On the contrary, Steinach was able to show that the growth of the penis was directly inhibited by the ovary, since in the feminized males this organ remained smaller than in the merely castrated animals.
Steinach in another series of experiments castrated young male rats and transplanted into them the ovaries of young females.
The grandson had been from his earliest youth under the influence of a eunuch, Wei Chung-hsien, who had castrated himself.
A good many members of the new class had themselves castrated after they had passed their state examination.
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