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AMPUTATION OF THE TAIL. 



23. AMPUTATION OF THE TAIL. 

 FIG. 6 AND 7. 



Objects. Malignant or incurable diseases of the tail. 



Instruments. Docking shears, ring cautery iron, dock- 

 ing chisel, mallet, a block of wood, suture material. 



Technic. I. Docking with the shears. Operate on the 

 standing animal secured in the stocks or with the aid of the 

 twitch and one fore foot held up or the side line applied to 



FIG. 7. 



Amputation of the tail. /, ligature for binding the hair of 

 the tail upwards. 



a hind foot. The point of amputation is determined by the 

 location of the disease. At this point the hair is parted 

 around the organ, turned upwards and bandaged to the root of 

 the tail with a compression bandage which at the same time 

 serves to retain the hair out of the operator's way and to 

 make the operation bloodless. Beneath the part clip the 



