CONTENTS. 



V. Division of Tissues. — Cutting and Puncturing Instruments and 



Methods of using them ...... 87 



Division by the Ecraseur, Elastic Ligature, Galvanic and Thermo- 

 cauteries . . . . . . .1)0 



Puncture — the Bistoury, Scalpel, Lancet, and Trocar ; Suture 

 . Needles . . . . . . . !>."> 



Division of Hard Tissues — Chisels, Saws, Bone-Forceps, etc. . . 97 



VI. .Methods of Uniting Wounds. — Recognised Modes of Healing 



Adhesives, Hooks. Bandages, Sutures, Suture-Needles, Silk. Silk 



worm Gut, Cat-Gut, Horsehair, Wire, and Pins . 

 General Directions for Inserting Sutures . 

 Skin Sutures ...... 



Bowel, Artery, Nerve, and Tendon Sutures 



101 



L02 



105 

 107 

 111 



VII. Methods of Preventing or Controlling Hemorrhage — H^emo- 



STASIS . . . . . . . .115 



Haemostatic Agents — Cold, Heat, Styptics. . . . 11(5 

 Surgical Methods — Tourniquet, Esmarch's Bandage, Compression, 



Ligation, Torsion, Forci-pressure, Acupressure . . . 117 



VIII. Bandaging and Dressing. — Bandage and Dressing Materials . 123 



Mode of Application, Precautions, various Bandages (28 figures) 125 



Bandages for Fractures ; Splints ; Poroplastic Felt . . 128 



IX. Massage. — Varieties; Action and Results; Indications, and 



Methods of Application ..... 135 



X. Phlebotomy, Scarification and Transfusion . . . 140 



XL Cauterisation. — Solid and Liquid Caustics, the Actual Cautery, 



Thermo-Cauteries, Line and Needle Firing . . . '153 



XII. Setoning. — Its value ; Positions in which Setons may be Inserted, 



Methods, Seton-Needles, etc. . . . . .168 



XIII. Inoculation. — Its Applications, Instruments and Methods . . 172 



XIV. The Injection of Medicines into the Blood Stream, Sub- 



cutaneous Tissue, Trachea, Larynx, or Parenchyma 



of Organs or Tissues. . . . . .174 



XV. Castration . . . . . . .178 



Castration Without Removal of the Testes— Crushing, " Bistourn- 



age," Subcutaneous Ligation of the Cord . . . 181 

 Castration by Removal of the Testes — Tearing, Scraping the Cord. 

 Broad Crushing, Linear Crushing, Torsion, Ligation, Division by 



the Actual Cautery, and Castration with Clams. . . 183 

 Aseptic Castration . . . . . .192 



(1.) Castration of Stallions. — Covered and Uncovered Methods 194 

 (2.) Castration of Male Ruminants. — Various Methods, Caustic 



Ligftture ; etc. ...... 204 



(3.) Castration of Swine ..... 207* 



(4.) Castration of Dogs and Cats .... 207 



(5.) Castration of Male Birds, Caponing, etc. . . . 208 



Complications and Unfavourable Consequences . . 208 



