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sufficient size to allow the gravid uterus (if this condition 

 is present) to be withdrawn. Two catgut or boiled silk 

 ligatures are placed above each ovary, and two others around 

 the body of the uterusjust below the junction of the two horns. 

 The uterus and its contents are lifted out of the abdomen on 

 to a boiled and sterilized cloth, the ligatures effectually pre- 

 venting any of the contents from escaping into the peritoneal 

 cavity and excised bodily. The stump of the uterus is care- 

 fully disinfected and returned into the abdomen. It is not 



Fig. 190. — Inoperable Malignant Tumours (Sarcoma) of the Pelvis and 

 Ovaries of a Cat.^ 



necessary to in any way fix the stump to the external 

 wound. The external wound is sutured and treated exactly 

 as already described (see Laparotomy). 



As after oophorectomy, cestrum has been observed and 

 mating has been allowed even when the two ovaries and the 

 whole of the uterus as far as just above the junction of the 

 horns with the body have been cleanly taken away beyond 

 any possibility of question. 



It is not always necessary to take both horns away; and if 



1 For this specimen I am indebted to Mr. Lionel Stroud, F.R.C.V.S. 

 {Veterinary Jmcrnal, vol. Ix., p. 317). 



