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hands, we seize the hide in the middle of the flank, and form 

 of it a wrinkle of the requisite elevation, and running length- 

 wise of the body. 



" We then direct an assistant to seize, with his right hand, 

 the right side of this wrinkle. We then take the bistoury, and 

 cut the wrinkle at one stroke through the middle. The wrinkle 

 having been suffered to go down, a separation of the hide is 

 presented of sufficient length to enable us to introduce the 

 hand. Thereupon we separate the edges of the hide with the 

 thumb and fore finger of the left hand, and, in like manner, we 

 cut through the abdominal muscles, the iliac (rather obliquely) 

 and the lumbar (cross), for a distance of a centimetre from the 

 lower extremity of the incision made in the hide. This done, 

 armed with the straight bistoury, we make a puncture of the 

 peritoneum, at the upper extremity of the wound ; we then 

 introduce the buttoned bistoury, and move it obliquely from 

 above to the lower part, up to the termination of the incision 

 made in the abdominal muscles. The flank being opened, we 

 introduce the right hand into the abdomen, and direct it along 

 the right side of the cavity of the pelvis, behind the paunch 

 and underneath the rectum, where we find the horns of the 

 uterus. After we have ascertained the position of these vis- 

 cera, we search for the ovaries, which are at the extremity of 

 the cornua, or horns (fallopian tubes), and when we have found 

 them, we seize them between the thumb and fore finger, detach 

 them completely from the ligaments that keep them in their 

 place, pull lightly, separating the cord and the vessels (uterine 

 or fallopian tubes) at their place of union with the ovarium, 

 by means of the nails of the thumb and fore finger, which pre- 

 sents itself at the point of touch ; in fact, we break the cord, 

 and bring away the ovarium. 



" We then introduce the hand again in the abdominal cavity, 

 and proceed in the same manner to extract the other ovarium. 



" This operation terminated, by the assistance of a needle 

 we place a suture of three or four double threads, waxed, 

 at an equal distance, and at two centimetres or a little less from 

 the lips of the wound ; passing it through the divided tissues 



