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This apparatus is the same in principle as Defays' 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 halt 

 an inch thick. The wire may either be of copper, brass, or 

 iron, about sixteen inches long (we have generally used a 

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



FIG 17. 

 breulet's tube and noose. 

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

 or noose at the end (Fig. 17). 



" 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 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 the right hand, placing his thumb at the end 

 of the tube (Fig. 18). A little traction then extracts the 



FIG. 18. 

 breulet's noose fixed on the fcetus. 

 ftetus, and without doing it or the bitch the least damage. 

 We now employ no other instrument in canine obstetricy, 

 and our success has always been complete, even with the 

 tiniest toy terriers. 



