CONTENTS. IX 



CHAPTER X. 



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Phlebotomy, Scarification, and Transfusion. — Reasons for and results of blood- 

 letting. Instruments— The lancet, hand and spring fleams. Bleeding the horse 

 and ox. Complications during and after operation and the methods of dealing with 

 them. Dieckerhoff's bleeding cannula. Bleeding sheep, goats, swine, etc. Scari- 

 fication. Transfusion . . . . • ■ '45 



CHAPTER XI. 



Methods of Preventing or Controlling Haemorrhage — Haemostasis. — Natural 

 checks against bleeding. Methods of blood-clotting; red and white clots, organ- 

 isation of clot. Haemostatic agents — Cold, heat, styptics. Mechanical methods 

 of controlling haemorrhage — Esmarch's bandage and its modifications, dividing 

 blood-vessels by the ecraseur, tearing, blunt dissection, compression of vessels, 

 ligation. Methods of ligating arteries — The surgical knot, torsion, forcipressure, 

 acupressure, the elastic ligature . . . . 159 



CHAPTER XII. 



The injection of medicines into the blood-stream, subcutaneous tissue, 

 trachea, oesophagus, larynx, or parenchyma of organs or tissues. — Intra- 

 venous injection — Instruments and methods, selection of suitable medicaments. 

 Subcutaneous injection — Instruments, methods, and medicaments. Intra-tracheal 

 injection — Instruments, methods, etc. Parenchymatous injection . ■ i?' 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Bandaging and Dressing. — Bandage and dressing materials, mode of application, 

 precautions required, forms of bandages (twenty-eight figures) ; starch, glue, pitch, 

 water-glass, plaster, and tripolith bandages . . . .177 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Massage. — Varieties, preparations for, action and results of, conditions in which 



massage is indicated, and methods of application . . . .190 



CHAPTER XV. 



Castration. — Definition of. Castration of male animals. Anatomy. Castration 

 without removal of testicles — Crushing the testicle, crushing the spermatic cord, 

 torsion of the spermatic cord, subcutaneous ligation of the cord. Castration 

 by removal of the testicles : dangers of this method — Haemorrhage, infective 

 inflammation, prolapse of bowel. Methods- — Tearing away of the testicle, scraping 

 the cord, crushing by the ecraseur, torsion of the cord (various methods), ligation 

 of the cord, simple division of the cord, division of the cord by the cautery, 

 castration by clams. Castration of stallions (detailed description of various 

 methods, including the " standing operation," castration by clams, " covered," 

 " uncovered," and " semi-covered " operations, torsion of the cord, castration with 

 the ecraseur, ligation of the cord, and aseptic castration). Complications and 

 sequelae. 



