Animal castration / by A. Liautard.

  • Liautard, A. (Alexandre François Augustin), 1835-1918.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Animal castration / by A. Liautard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or rosy tissue, ordinarily containing no spermato- zoids. Sometimes it is rudimentary, atrophied, scarcely recognizable; however, in some instances it has been seen with the dimensions of the ordinary testicle. Like all glands in abnormal position, the testicle in ectopia is subject to neoplastic degeneration. Sometimes it is very large, deformed by one or several cysts, whose contents vary; it may give to the hand the sensation of a double testicle, when one of these cysts has become pedunculated; exceptionally cartilaginous or bony little masses have been found in them ; sometimes sarcomatous or carcinomatous degeneration is presented, and the testicle assumes enormous dimensions. Quite frequently also the organ contains sclerostomas which have hollowed its walls. Generally the diagnosis of cryptorchidy is easy. The noisy manifestations of the animal thus affected and the absence of the mass formed by essential organs of males indicate the trouble. In exploring the inguinal region, if the horse is a ridgling, the testicle or the cicatrix of castration is absent. With monorchids, one side shows the bag empty and without any mark, while on the other the testicle is there, or, if it has been removed, a cicatricial depres- sion situated near the median line is found. On the side of the ectopic gland, sometimes a linear, not depressed, cicatrix is found; this comes from an incision made to deceive and to make believe that the animal has been castrated. But when the testicle has been excised, the cicatrix is almost
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