Identifier: animalcastration00whit (find matches)
Title: Animal castration : a book for the use of students and practitioners
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: White, George Ransom, 1874-
Subjects: Castration Spaying
Publisher: Nashville : Published by the author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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ooped above hocksand attached to a beam above. Position—Hanging just high enough so that the operative fieldwill be opposite the operators breast. Instruments— 1. Miles hook castrating knife. (Fig. 25.) 2. Emasculator. (Fig. 80.) 3. Ilagerdorn No. 3 needle (Fig. 84) carrying 20 inches braid-ed silk No. 12 for suturing skin incision. 4. Surgeons full curved needle No. 5 (Fig 180 &) carrying asufficient amount of chromicized catgut (ten-day) to close theinternal abdominal ring. 5. Richters needle holder. (Fig. 34.) 118 Axi:\(AL Castration Sterilization of lustrnnients, Cleansing Operators Hands andOperative Field—Same as for castration of the ridgling boar.(See page 109.) Operative Technique—AVith the pig in position, the instrn-ments sterilized, hands of operator and operative field cleansedand disinfected, we proceed as follows: Locate the internal ab-dominal ring. This can nsnally be done by pressure applied ex-ternallv in the inguinal region. With location of the ring as
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Fig. 90—View of the Scrotum After Animal Is Hung Up for Operation. Animal Castration 119

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