An Improved Method of and Means for Castrating Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and other Animals.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 21st June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Castrating Horses, Cattle,
Sheep, and other Animals.
I ROBERT THOMAS of Rathpeacon House, Cork in the County of Cork, Ireland,
Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improved method for castrating horses, cattle, sheep and
other animals, and has for its object to perform a painless operation and to minimize
the dangers attending such operations, and which have heretofore often resulted in the
death of the animal operated upon.
According to my Invention, I merely make an incision with a knife in the scrotum
to allow the testicles to come down, and I place a clam above the said testicles which
are allowed to hang. The said clam consists of elder wool, and is hollow in the
centre, and in this central cavity 1 place a mixture of lard; and of the juice of black-
thorn ivy. This causes the testile to wither and separate within a few days from the
scrotum without any inflamation, and without pain to the animal.
According to this method there is no possibility of any arteries or veins being
severed, and hence there is no danger of inflamation setting up in consequence of
air finding its way within an artery.
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1000
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Castrating Horses, Cattle,
Sheep, and other Animals.
1 ROBERT THOMAS of Rathpeacon House Cork in the County of Cork Ireland,
Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention relates to an improved method for castrating horses, cattle, sheep and
other animals, and has for its object to perform a painless operation and minimize the
dangers attending such operations and which have heretofore often resulted in the death
of the animal operated upon.
In carrying my invention into practical effect I merely make an incision with a
knife in the scrotum to allow the testicles to come down; I then place a clamp made
of wood or other suitable material hollow in the centre and tied or fastened at both
ends pressing the scrotum between the testicles and the animals belly; inside this
central cavity or hollow, I place an antiseptic or compound, such as equal parts of
tard and the extract of Irish ivy or any other approved antiseptic.
By the action of the clamp the testicles are caused to wither and separate from the
scrotum within a short period without inducing any inflamation or causing the
slightest pain to the animal so treated. According to this my improved method there
is no possibility of any arteries or veins being severed or injured and hence the danger
arizing from inflamation setting in, in consequence of air finding its way within a
severed artery, is removed.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have shewn the
same in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows my apparatus clamping the
scrotum between the testicles and the belly of the animal and Fig. 2 a sectional view

page_text: A is the clamp divided into two pieces hollow in the centre (as shewn by Cin
Fig. 2) and fastened together by any suitable fastenings a, a.
B shows the part of
the scrotum between the testicals and the belly of the animal which is clamped by
my apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The improved method of castrating horse, cattle sheep and other animals
consisting of the use of a hollow shaped clam as herein before described, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. The improved method of castrating horses cattle sheep and other animals
consisting of the use of a hollow shaped clam with the addition of any suitable
antiseptic as hereinbefore described, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 25th day of April 1890
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, Agents.