APPARATUS REQUIRED 



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1. Place the various instruments, forceps, scissors, 

 scalpels, etc., needed for the autopsy inside the steriliser 

 and sterilise by boiling for ten minutes ; then open the 

 steriliser, raise the tray from the interior and rest it 

 crosswise on the edges. 



2 . Heat the searing irons to redness in a separate gas 

 stove. 



3. Drench the fur (or feathers) with lysol solution, 

 2 per cent. This serves the twofold purpose of pre- 



FiG. 197. Apparatus for post-mortem examination, animal on board. 



venting the hairs from flying about and entering the 

 body cavities during the autopsy, and of rendering 

 innocuous any vermin that may be present on the 

 animal. 



4. Examine the cadaver carefully. Recollect that 

 laboratory animals are not always hardy ; death may be 



FIG. 198. Searing iron. 



due to exposure to heat or cold, to starvation or over- 

 or improper feeding or to the attack of rats and not 

 to the bacterial infection. 



5. Fasten the body of the animal, ventral surface 

 upward (unless there is some special reason for having 



