EXPLANATIONS. 



EXPLANATION OF CUT OF INSTRUMENTS. 



(See opposite title page.) 



1. Hobbles, or Casting Apparatus. 



2. Cattle Probang, used for liberating gas from the stomach, or for 

 pushing downwards substances which may have lodged in the gullet. 



3. Thumb Lancet, used for the purpose of opening an abscess, or for 

 bleeding. 



4. Dissecting, or Artery Forceps. 



5. Gum Scarificator. 



6. Tube for Obstructions in Cows' Teats. 



7. Knife used in performing the operations of Castrating and Spaying. 



8. Bistoury, used in opening the Peritoneum. 



9. Curved Surgical Scissors. 



10. A Set of Suture Needles. 



11. Female Catheter, for evacuating the bladder of urine. 



12. Midwifery Tractor, and Slip-Noose. 



13. Instrument for reducing an inverted womb. 



14. Midwifery Clasp-Hooks, used for the extraction of the foetus. 



15. Crainotomy and Embryotomy Knife. 



16. Mouth-Gag, used in connection with the Probang. 



17. Trocar, used for puncturing the chest in dropsy. 



18. This is the Canula, which slips over the Trocar, and conducts the 

 water from the chest when the cutting instrument — Trocar — is removed. 



1 9 and 20 are Trocar and Canula for puncturing the paunch in cases of 

 "hoove," or tympanites. 



21. Tracheotomy Tube, used for the purpose of relieving an animal 

 when afflicted with spasm of the larynx, etc., etc. 



22 and 23. Two different views of the shield of the tracheotomy tube. 



INVERSION OF THE WOMB AFTER CALVING. 



1. The pudendum. 

 2, 6. Region of the neck of the womb. 



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