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OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE. 



form, but is constructed throughout of metal. Both tables, in fact, 

 are close imitations of those used in human surger}-. 



In this countr}-, Professor Hobday has suggested a cheap and useful 

 table of wood, the upper surface perfectly flat and displaying numerous 

 incisions for receiving the small keys by which the hobbles are secured 

 to the table. This table, owing to the numerous perforations, is, of 

 course, less readily rendered aseptic than a metal or glass table, though 

 in actual practice the point is not of prime importance. Professor 

 Macqueen has recently brought before the profession an excellent 

 table, also of wood, designed by Claude Bernard, consisting of four 

 parallel leaves connected by hinges. The two outer leaves may be 



Fig, 



-Professor Macqueen's operating table for the dog (Claude Bernard's design). 



inclined at any angle towards one another, forming a trough to receive 

 the animal's bod}'. Owing to its great simplicity and absence of depres- 

 sions likely to retain dirt, etc., this table is cheap, and responds to 

 most of the requirements of veterinary surger}-, while it is readily adapt- 

 able to animals of var3ing size, and when folded is quite portable. The 

 writer is indebted to the courtesy of the proprietor of the ' Veterinary 

 Record ' for the illustration of this latter table. 



A special instrument is used in France for securing dogs suspected 

 of rabies. It has a long handle, and carries at the end a spring 

 collar which, when pressed on the dog's neck, opens and holds him 

 securely. 



