CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PACK 



General Remarks on Operations. — Their limitations, classification, method of 

 planning, preparations previous to and selection of place for, assistance required, 

 after-treatment . . • • • • • I 



CHAPTER II. 



Means of Control. — The blinds, muzzle, operating hood, bulldogs, nose and leg 

 twitch, loop and bridle twitch, bull-holder and leader, nose rings, mouth-gags 

 for horses and dogs. Restraint by fastening a fore to a hind leg, by lifting a 

 fore or hind leg, by securing both hind legs, the hippo-lasso. Methods of fasten- 

 ing oxen — The side-stick, the " cradle" or "beads," the stocks or trevis, operating 

 tables, casting with a cart rope, casting with hobbles, cross-hobbles, apparatus to 

 prevent broken back. Continental methods of casting (various), securing and 

 releasing limbs (various methods), Russian method of casting single-handed, the 

 back-strap. Securing cattle, sheep, swine, dogs, and cats for operation. Operating 

 tables for small animals. Cumplications attending casting, etc. 



CHAPTER III. 



Anaesthesia. — Introduction, historical and general. 



(a) General Ancesihesia. — Anaesthesia in the horse. — -Chloroform — Partial anaes- 

 thesia by chloroform, surgical anaesthesia by chloroform. Apparatus and 

 methods — Morphine and chloroform, ether, chloral, chloral and morphine, 

 morphine, methylene. Anaesthesia in ruminants and swine — Chloroform, 

 ether, chloral, morphine, chloroform and morphine. Anaesthesia in the 

 dog and cat — Ether, chloroform, morphine with ether or chloroform, mor- 

 phine and chloral, chloroform with atropine and morphine, other methods. 

 Conclusions regarding general anaesthesia. Surgical anaesthesia by the 

 injection of cocaine into the lumbar subarachnoid space. 



(i) Local Anaesthesia. — Local anaesthesia by cold — Ice and salt, ether spray, 

 bisulphide of carbon, methyl bichloride and anestile. Local anesthesia by 

 cocaine. Local anaesthesia by infiltration — Schleich's and other methods . 44 



