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OBSTETRIC A L OPERA TIONS. 



far as our experience enables us to speak), is that devised by Breulet, 

 of Marche, Belgium, which meets every requirement in the accouche- 

 ment of small Bitches, and might be successfully employed v^ith Sows, 

 Ewes, and Goats. This apparatus is the same in principle as Defays' 



Fig. 166. 

 Defays' Wire Extractor applied. 



wire extractor, but there is only one wire. The principal part of the 

 invention is a noose-tube, consisting of a tubular piece of round wood, 

 from four to six inches long, and half an inch thick. The wire may 

 either be of copper, brass, or iron, about sixteen inches long (we have 



Fig. 167. 

 Breulet's Tube and Noose. 



generally used a piece of catgut, and prefer it) ; this is doubled, passed 

 through the tube to a certain extent, so as to form a loop or noose at 

 the end (Fig. 167). When it is to be used, the first finger of the left 

 hand carries the loop into the vagina of the Bitch, and slips it behind 



Fig. 168. 

 Breulet's Noose fixed on the Foetus. 



the occiput of the Puppy ; then the two ends of the wire are passed 

 through the tube, and this is pushed into the vagina under the chin of 

 the foetus ; the operator now tightens and secures the wire, by giving 

 it a turn round the first finger of his right hand, placing his thumb at 

 the end of the tube (Fig. 168). A little traction then extracts the 

 foetus, and without doing it or the Bitch [the least damage. I have 



