The snout should be perforated at weaning-time, after the animal has recovered from castration or spaying; and it will be necessary to renew the operation as it becomes of large growth.
Some breeders advocate castration in a day or two after birth, while others will not allow the operation to be performed until the lamb is a month old.
The most fatal consequence of castration is tetanus, or lockjaw, induced by the shock communicated to the nervous system by the torture of the operation.
The principal danger from castration has arisen from the severity with which the iron has been employed.
The ordinary consequences of castration are pain, inflammation, engorgement, and suppuration.
Hamilton, of New-York, has recently recommended castration for the relief of this affection, and has published several cases in which he performed the operation in illustration of its efficacy.
Castration must be performed; and even this is in too many cases insufficient to annul the malignant disposition of which the parts have become the seat.
By many, castrationwas considered necessary for the cure of scrotal hernia.
Poetic genius is intimately associated with sexual power and castration inhibits it.
When castration has taken place at an early age, it has a much more powerful influence in modifying the secondary sexual characters.
And much improvement was seen after castration in those who previously suffered from prostatism.
Experiments were made on animals and the results seemed to prove that castrationin them constantly produced prostatic atrophy.
This disease may follow castration or operation for hernia.
Castration in the male is performed for several different purposes.
The operation of castration of the male is by no means a serious one, and when properly performed there is little danger from complications.
The application of a clamp like those used in castration is a most effective method, but great care must be taken to see that all the contents of the sac are returned so that none may be inclosed in the clamp.
The operation of castration among these people was performed at one stroke or at two different times, in the former case one cicatrix being left, and in the latter two.
Smetius mentions castration which was effected by using the finger-nails, and there is an old record in which a man avulsed his own genitals.
Fortunately castration for the production of "castrata," or tenor singers, has almost fallen into disuse.
Clot-Bey removed an elephantoid tumor of the scrotum weighing 80 pounds, performing castrationat the same time.
The ancient Book of Job speaks of eunuchs, and they were in vogue before the time of Semiramis; the King of Lydia, Andramytis, is said to have sanctioned castration of both male and female for social reasons.
In his Essays Montaigne mentions an instance of complete castration performed by the individual himself.
The operation of castration is generally performed by a class of barbers, sometimes by some of the more intelligent of the eunuchs themselves, in the following manner.
In Hyderabad, castration used to be performed at about the age of sixteen.
Though castration and Oophorectomy can be performed with safety and without pain, they are absolutely unjustifiable operations, if done to produce sterility.
Of surgical methods, castration of males, Oophorectomy or the removal of the ovaries in women, and vasectomy, or the section of the cords of the testicles, have all been suggested.
Annual castration of a certain number of the children of the popular classes was not long ago seriously proposed by Weinhold.
The rite of the Persians: Castrationhas been practiced from remote antiquity, and is a feature of the harem life of the Levant to the present day.
The Hebrews placarded castration an unpardonable sin, making it a sin to castrate even animals.
The cynical epicurean careerists and careeristinas, and the depraved degenerates of a comfort-lusting civilization may have suffered an absolute atrophy and castration of that instinct.
But as an experimental operation, castration seems to hold the primary position in the annals of surgery.
Castration after puberty cannot modify profoundly structures like the skeleton which are already completed.
Castration was probably the first surgical operation carried out for experimental purposes, suggested no doubt by a curiosity concerning its effects.
If in castration the cord is left too long, so as to hang out of the wound, the skin wound in contracting grasps and strangles it, preventing the free return of blood and causing a steadily advancing swelling.
They also become the seat of cancer, glanders, or tuberculosis, and castration is requisite, though with less hope of arresting the disease.
Into the many methods of accomplishing this limited space forbids us to enter here, so that only the method most commonly adopted, castration by clamps, will be noticed.
The same agents may be used on a gland threatened with gangrene, but its prompt removal by castrationis to be preferred, antiseptics being applied freely to the resulting cavity.
The young horse suffers less from castration than the old, and very rarely perishes.
The essential part of castration is the safe removal or destruction of the testicle and the arrest or prevention of bleeding from the spermatic artery round in the anterior part of the cord.
The same astringent dressings may be tried as in hydrocele, and, this failing, castration may be resorted to.
Acromegaly in cases where there was no castration has been accompanied by atrophy of testicles and ovaries.
Castration effects an atrophy of several parts of the generative tract, and an irremediable degeneration; vasectomy cuts off the spermatozoa but causes no atrophy or degeneration, and the condition is remediable.
Castration in the male or ovariotomy in the female stops all production of spermin and ovarin.
Bergmann, of Strasburg, quotes the ancient traditions, wherein it is stated that man was taught the art of castrationby the brute creation.
In Arabia, the trade or profession of a resectricis nympharum or she-circumciser is as stable an occupation with some matrons as that of cock-castration or caponizing is the sole occupation of many a matron in the south of Europe.
Continence, celibacy, infibulation, and even castration were the conditions looked upon by many of these men as the only means of living a life on earth that would grant them an eternal life in the next.
As strange as it may sound, self-castration is still practiced by the Skoptsy, a religious sect in Russia.
When castration is performed soon after birth a minute, simple spike antler is developed, only two to four inches in length: it remains covered with skin, is never shed, and develops no branches.
The effects of castration show that the development of certain characters is greatly influenced in some way by the presence of the testes in a distant part of the body.
It must be remembered that not only was thecastration in these cases incomplete, but also that it was performed on mature birds.
Castration during the breeding season causes the external pigmented layer with its papillae to be cast off very soon--that is to say, it has the same effect as the normal discharge of the spermatozoa.
This is the age at which castration is usually performed, as at an earlier age the birds are too small to operate on successfully.
When castration is carried out at birth the male somatic characters do not entirely disappear, because the hormone of the interstitial cells has acted during intrauterine life.
The question, however, to what degree the male characters of the cock are suppressed after complete castration is not so definitely answered in the literature of the subject.
The important statement is made with regard tocastration (under anaesthetics, of course) that it was found impossible to extirpate the testes completely.
Among certain individuals, such as sadists, whose sexual appetite is dangerous in itself, castration would be necessary.
It would be a great advance if civil legislation would in such cases accord official recognition to castration or dislocation of the tubes, with the consent of the criminal or patient concerned.
Adult women after castration preserve their sexual appetite, and sometimes even their menstruation, for a certain time.
A method of rendering women sterile without castration (removal of the ovaries) consists in interrupting the communication between the ovaries and the womb by dislocation of the Fallopian tubes: this avoids all the evil effects of castration.
Castration is the term applied to the extirpation of the sexual glands.
Females who have undergone castration become fat and sometimes take on certain masculine characters.
The question of castration arises here: but we do not know yet how far this protects the sadist and his victim against recurrence.
We have already mentioned castrationand certain cases in which it might be practiced.
Zealous and advanced reformers have proposed castration in such cases, which has provoked a general cry of indignation.
For some years, however, castration has been employed as a remedy for certain disorders both in men and women, especially for hysteria in women.
The analogous treatment of castrationin the Hadrianic edict, Dig.
It is also conceivable that the obtrusive occurrence of incest, castration of the father, etc.
The motive is, according to all accounts, psychologically quite as comprehensible as the frequently substituted castration of the son by the father.
Naturally the reduction of sexuality had to occur at the beginning of the work in order to furnish that power; hence the castration at the commencement of the process.
In its bearing on the incest wish, castration is indeed the best translation of the “anatomizing” of the lion.
The most outspoken and also a commonly occurring form of the mythological separation of the primal pair is the castration of the father by the son.
Important for us is the fact that castration in myths is represented sometimes as the tearing out of a limb or by complete dismemberment.
That the castration motive works out that way with father and son (son-in-law if the daughter takes the place of the mother) is expressed either in so many words in the myth or through corresponding displacement types.
On the Guinea coast there is a breed in which the females never bear horns, and, as Mr. Winwood Reade informs me, the rams after castration are quite destitute of them.
But why castration should lead to the reappearance of an early condition of the horns cannot be explained with any certainty.
The male reindeer, however, must be excepted, as after castration he does renew them.
The effects of castration deserve notice, as throwing light on this same point.
So that with sheep at the age of castration the females are certainly in excess of the males, but probably this would not hold good at birth.
But remember that I am not quite certain that I well castrated the short-styled primrose; I believe any castration would be superfluous, as I find all [these] plants sterile when insects are excluded.
Papilionaceous flowers are almost dead floorers to me, and I cannot experimentise, as castration alone often produces sterility.
It is inconceivable, however, that castration was originally performed with the purpose of engendering these characteristics.
The castration of the bull, therefore, may originally well have been regarded as the sacrifice of the most readily accessible of the favourite vehicles of the soul.
Even though the castration of the priest may be understood as the result of the well-known effects of extreme religious excitement, the castration of the bull is not yet accounted for.
What motives led to the castration of male cattle, a practice which everywhere obviously serves agricultural purposes?
Castration in the dog is not of itself dangerous; but it renders the animal disposed to accumulate fat, and destroys many of those qualities for which it is esteemed.
Footnote 3: Castration of females seems, at least, among humans, to bring them nearer the male type.
In all cases where the dimorphism is slight, and is the direct consequence of the possession of sexual organs, castrationinclines the male toward the female type.
Effects of castration vary, necessarily, according to the age of the subject.
Castration is still practiced in some Eastern countries.
FN#389] The texts justifying or enjoining castration are Matt.
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