have but few slips. This will work on small chickens, one 

 and a half pounds fellows, but cannot be used on two or three 

 pounds young cockerels. A wire six inches long, crooked 

 at the end to raise testicles up will be handy. Try a dead 

 one first. 



MY MISTAKES THROUGH IGNORANCE 



I was called to spay twenty cattle, and alter one colt at 

 a certain town. I did the work nicely, as I thought. The 

 seventeenth subject, a two year old heifer, was so hot that 

 I then remarked, "vShe was boiling hot inside;" but I pro- 

 ceeded with my work without washing my hands or instru- 

 ments, or using any antiseptics, and spayed three more and 

 altered the colt. Within a week the heifer I mentioned, 

 the three operated upon after, also the colt, all died. I now 

 think ignorance on my part cost the lives of these three 

 well cattle and the colt. 



Again, I was called to altar five ridglings and one stal- 

 lion at Dr. Wm. Sheppard's, M. R. C. V. S., of Ottawa, 

 111. I was, -while there, presented with a fine gold-headed 

 cane by twenty veterinarians. The work was nicely done, 

 as all pronounced it, and so I thought. However, all died 

 but one horse, and he had a bad time of it because the first 

 one was a double number three ridgling, and was sick. I 

 noticed it, and said he was very hot inside, but did not think 

 to wash my hands, or know how to use antiseptics, which I 

 shall never fail to do hereafter. Still. I have done hundreds 

 not so smoothly, that seemed to do extra well. My advice 

 to all surgeons is to use your thermometer per rectum, and 

 if the temperature is above one hundred and one degrees, 

 defer your operation and give some sort of physic and come 

 again. When you do operate, have clean hands and instru- 



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