Vasectomy: First on animals
The first recorded animal vasectomy occurred in 1823. In this case it was the tying of the vas deferens in a dog. Sir Astley Cooper, who had experimental surgery as a hobby, made the following experiment on a dog. He divided the vas deferens on one side and the spermatic artery and vein on the other. In 1829 he killed him, and found the vas deferens below the division excessively enlarged and full of semen (sic), and entirely stopped, with some separation of its extremities; but it was open from the place of division to the urethra.
The testis upon that side on which the artery and vein were divided gangrened and sloughed away...
The testis on the side on which the duct was divided became somewhat larger than natural. He kept the dog for six years; during that time he was twice seen in coitu, but the female did not produce. This was in 1827.
Vasectomy: First on humans
Maurice Meltzer, writing in 1928, has declared that four men performed vasectomies between 1885 and 1896 - Guyon, Burket, Hilton, and Harrison. But doubt has been expressed about this claim. In 1895 Guyon wrote of his experiences with "resection of the vasa deferentia" and it is clear that in 1896 Isnardi performed vasectomies, but the first human vasectomies were performed either by Lennander in Uppsala , Sweden (in 1894) or by Harrison in London (probably as early as 1893).
Vasectomy: First used as treatment for criminals
In 1899, the first vasectomy as treatment for a "criminal," i.e. a compulsive masturbator was performed by Dr. Harry C. Sharp, as medical officer of the Jefferson Reformatory in Indiana . Clawson , a young man of nineteen, greatly worried by his masturbatory habits, approached Dr. Sharp to request castration. Even at that time no sane doctor would have granted such a request. "I did not feel justified in performing that mutilation" was remarked by Dr. Sharp, forty years later, however, he did think that a vasectomy would help. On the 12th October 1899 Clawson was sterilised by vasectomy. The operation evidently did the trick. Later, Clawson reported that he had stopped masturbating. It is rather a mystery, why this should be so. Dr. Sharp started to carry out further vasectomies encouraged by his "success" with "this fellow Clawson ". He published a report of forty-two voluntary vasectomies on men aged between seventeen and twenty-five, all offenders imprisoned in Jeffersonville , in 1902.
Vasectomy: Inducements first introduced
It is a totally different thing – to devise a means of contraception and to get people to employ it. In some situations they can be bribed. The payment of inducements for vasectomy was first introduced in 1956 in Madras State (Tamil Nadu). Thirty rupees was paid to each man agreeing to submit himself for the operation, after sometime, payments were even made to anyone who successfully induced a man to undergo vasectomy.
Vasectomy: Country in which most practised
The home of vasectomy has been represented in India , the Indian government claiming to have performed upwards of 8,000,000 where vasectomies sterilization operations are more than 80%. It is explained by the fact that in a population of nearly six hundred million the population is growing at the rate of up to 14,000,000 every year. Today the Indian government is pledged to provide contraceptive services of some kind to all of around 120,000,000 married women of reproductive age in India.
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