Re: What the hell has happened to my left testicle?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 3:22 pm
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Shabbube, you're one of the few who's had any success with using bistournage on a human. The method is described, for veterinary medicine, on pages 58-67 of Animal Castration by A. Liautard, M.D., V.M., edition of 1902. As it is out of copyright, this book is available on Google as a free PDF or ePub. To describe what the hell happened to your left testicle, I shall quote:
In this mode of operating, principally in vogue in the southern parts of France, the position of the testicle is so changed that its lower extremity is made to take the place of the upper, the cord is subjected to a certain degree of torsion, and then the testicle is restored to its normal position, to undergo a process of atrophy which destroys its power of secretion by a physiological action. The great length of the cord and the greater laxity of the cellular tissue situated between the dartos and the fibrous coat, render this operation much easier in the ruminants than in the solipeds. Simple in its manipulations, although still involving a certain degree of dexterity, and followed by comparatively no symptoms of reactive fever, the only instrument necessary for its performance is a piece of cord, twine, or rubber, sufficiently strong to secure the testicular envelopes when the gland has been subjected to the double displacement, and the cord to the torsion it has undergone. In this operation, no special preparation being demanded, the animal is usually treated on his feet.If you have any insight on how you got it to work, you may have just dethroned calchlorin injections as the cheapest and safest DIY method in use on the Archive.
Shabbube, you're one of the few who's had any success with using bistournage on a human. The method is described, for veterinary medicine, on pages 58-67 of Animal Castration by A. Liautard, M.D., V.M., edition of 1902. As it is out of copyright, this book is available on Google as a free PDF or ePub. To describe what the hell happened to your left testicle, I shall quote:
In this mode of operating, principally in vogue in the southern parts of France, the position of the testicle is so changed that its lower extremity is made to take the place of the upper, the cord is subjected to a certain degree of torsion, and then the testicle is restored to its normal position, to undergo a process of atrophy which destroys its power of secretion by a physiological action. The great length of the cord and the greater laxity of the cellular tissue situated between the dartos and the fibrous coat, render this operation much easier in the ruminants than in the solipeds. Simple in its manipulations, although still involving a certain degree of dexterity, and followed by comparatively no symptoms of reactive fever, the only instrument necessary for its performance is a piece of cord, twine, or rubber, sufficiently strong to secure the testicular envelopes when the gland has been subjected to the double displacement, and the cord to the torsion it has undergone. In this operation, no special preparation being demanded, the animal is usually treated on his feet.If you have any insight on how you got it to work, you may have just dethroned calchlorin injections as the cheapest and safest DIY method in use on the Archive.