COMPLETE EMBRYOTOMY 



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The other thoracic wall is detached similarly, followed 

 by extraction of the balance of the calf by the flaps of 

 skin previously secured. Harms's method of incising the skin 

 before removing a fore leg deviates somewhat from the manner 

 described on page 271. 



He circumcised about three-fourths of the skin of the fore 

 arm, a little above the carpus. After separating the skin a 

 little above the wound with the thumb, the spatula is intro- 

 duced to sever the connective tissues and all the muscles 

 excepting the M. cuccularis. Next he cuts the remaining skin 

 of the first incision, also the skin along the whole limb. After 

 that three men exert traction. 



Franck-Goring, after fixing the leg, split the skin on the 

 internal surface of the limb and the superficial fascia from the 

 sternum to the fetlock. They use the finger knife or chisel 

 with concave cutting edge and a probe-point on each side. 

 The balance of the skin is separated with the hand or spatula. 

 After the skin is completely severed at the shoulder, the 

 pectoral muscles are cut, the skin at the fetlock is circumcised 

 and the leg extracted. 



