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to prevent displacement ; to this should be 

 further attached linen bands or dossils, and 

 their extremities knotted above the upper part 

 of the neck."^ 



Subsequent Attention. — The animal on 

 getting up is placed in a box without bedding, 

 and kept strictly without food for twenty- 

 four hours. Moller, who formulated these 

 Instructions, does not now rigorously apply 

 them. For some time past, he has given his 

 patients bedding and water to drink from the 

 first day. 



The next day the dressing and the tube 



* The principal changes that can be made in the 

 way of rendering this operation more simple are the 

 following: — (i) Make the incision only as far back as' 

 the first tracheal ring; (2) discard the use of the canula; 

 (3) apply no dressings. The future will determine the 

 efficacy of the means. 



