APPARATUS REQUIRED FOR ANIMAL INOCULATION 345 



Scissors, probe and sharp-pointed. 



Dissecting forceps of various patterns. 



Pressure forceps. 



Retractors (small self retaining Fig. 172). 



Aneurism needles, sharp and blunt. 



Scalpels, j 



Keratomes, > with metal handles. 



Trephines, J 



Michel's steel clips and special forceps for applying the same. 



These small steel clips enable the operator to easily and 



rapidly close skin incisions and are most satisfactory for 



animal operations. 

 Surgical needles. 

 Needle holder. 



Soft rubber catheters, various sizes. 

 Gum elastic cesophageal bougies with con- FIG. 172. Small 



nection to fit syringe. self retainin g re- 



5. Anesthetic. 



(a) General: The safest general anaesthetic for animals is an 

 A. C. E. mixture, freshly prepared, containing by 

 volume alcohol i part, chloroform 2 parts, ether 6 parts, 

 and should be administered on a "cone" formed by 

 twisting up one corner of a towel and placing a wad of 

 cotton-wool inside it, or from a saturated cotton -wool 

 pad packed into the bottom of a small beaker. 



(6) Local: 



1. Cocaine hydrochloride, 2 per cent, in adrenalin i per 

 mille solution. 



2. Beta-eucaine, 2 per cent, in adrenalin, i per mille 

 solution. 



3. Ethyl chloride jet. 



6. Sterile glass capsules of various sizes. 



10 c.c. (in tenths of a cubic 



._ . centimetre). 



7. Cases of sterile pipettes ' ^, , , . 



i c.c. (in hundredths of a cubic 



centimetre) . 



8. Flasks (75 c.c.) containing sterilised normal saline solution 

 (or sterile bouillon) . 



9. Sterilised cotton-wool. Cotton-wool (absorbent) is packed 

 loosely in a copper cylinder similar to that used for storing capsules, 

 and sterilised in the hot-air oven. 



10. Sterilised gauze. Gauze is sterilised in the same way as 

 cotton- wool. 



11. Sterilised silk and catgut for sutures. These are sterilised, 

 as required, by boiling for some ten minutes in the water steriliser. 



12. Flexible collodion (or compound tincture of benzoin). 



13. Grease pencil. 



14. Tie-on celluloid labels, to affix to the cages. 



