1 54 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



by a little machine (Fig. 15), composed of a thin iron rod 

 in a handle, the other end of which is thickened and pierced 

 by holes running nearly parallel to the stalk. Into these 

 holes the two wires of one side are passed ; the machine 

 on each side is pulled up as close as possible to the head of 

 the foetus, and, each being turned round three or four times, 

 the neck is enclosed in a kind of noose or collar formed by 

 the two wires (Fig. 16). 



" The rods are now withdrawn from the latter, and the 

 foetus can be extracted by exercising traction on the four 

 ends of the wires outside the vulva. By this contrivance 

 delivery is effected without injury to the bitch, and, unless 



FIG. 16, 



DEFAYS' WIRE EXTRACTOR APPLIED. 



it is much decomposed, without separating the head of the 

 foetus. 



" We have tried Defays' apparatus, and can speak highly 

 of it ; not unfrequently we have succeeded in extracting 

 the puppy alive, and when the use of forceps would have 

 been impossible. 



" A much simpler, readier, and perhaps more successful 

 apparatus (so far as our experience enables us to speak) is 

 that devised by Breulet, of Marche, Belgium, which meets 

 every requirement in the accouchement of small bitches, 

 and might be successfully employed with sows, ewes, and 

 goats. 



