A Case of Ligature and Division of the Vasa Deferentia for Prostatic Hypertrophy

Whilst castration, double or single, has yielded most remarkable results?a considerable percentage of the patients being able to discard the catheter entirely, and a great number of the other patients experiencing great relief?several fatal cases have shown that it is occasionally attended by considerable danger; and this fact, apart from the natural objection most patients feel to an operation involving an obvious mutilation, is sufficient to justify a more extended trial of a comparatively trifling operation, and one which would not preclude subsequent castration as a last resource.