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pressed together, so that the two serous surfaces of the 

 intestine come in direct contact. In from a week to a 

 fortnight sloughing occurs of the parts included within the 

 button, and the latter is passed through the bowel, union of 

 the t\\-o serous surfaces having occurred in the meantime. 



Jordan,^ in India, performed enterectomy experimentally 

 upon fifty-nine pariah dogs by various methods, the one 

 which gave the greatest percentage of success being as 

 follows : Two hollow cj-linders, each three-quarters of an 

 inch long, were made either from the decalcified femora of 

 geese or turkeys, or from fresh carrots, turnips, or potatoes, 



Fig. 134. — Cones with Sutures and Needles attached.^ 



and bevelled off at one end so as to form a hollow truncated 

 cone, the apex being less than, and the base the diameter of, 

 the lumen of the bowel. Each cone was furnished with two 

 sutures, which were passed through its wall from the apex to 

 the base, one on each side, a big knot at the apical end pre- 

 venting the suture from being pulled through the cone. The 

 apex was then inserted, and the ' cone sutures ' passed through 

 all the layers of the bowel an eighth of an inch from the cut 

 margin, one at the mesenteric attachment, and the other at 

 the opposite side of the gut. The other cone being similarly 

 passed, an assistant approximated the ends of the bowel, 

 and the corresponding pairs of sutures were tied moderately 



1 Lancet, October, 1897, p. 1098. 



' For this and the following two figures I am indebted to the Lancet. 



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