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Animal Castration 



4. In the center of this skin incision the knife point should 

 be thrust through the abdominal wall, making a perforation large 

 enough to admit one finger only. The knife is now put aside, as 

 you have no further use for it. 



5. One finger of the operating hand is thrust through the ab- 

 dominal wall perforation, and by stretching the wound two fingers 

 are admitted — index fingers of each hand. With these two fingers 

 tear the muscular fibers apart sufficiently to admit the whole hand. 



6. With left hand inside the abdominal cavity the body of the 

 uterus is located, after which follow its right cornua upwards 

 and backwards until right ovary is encountered. 



7. With right hand the emasculator is now passed along the 



Pig. 155 — Severing the Ovaries. O, Left Arm; P, Incision; Q, Emasculator; R, Right 



Hand. 



left arm through the incision, and its head placed above the ovary, 

 and by bringing the handles together the ovary is severed from its 

 attachment. (See Fig. 155.) 



8. The left ovary is now located by following the right cornua 



