SURGICAL OPERATIONS. 



DESCEIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate XXVI. Devices for casting cattle. (From Fleming.) 

 Fig. 1. Reuff' s method of throwing or casting the os. 

 Fig. 2. Miics's method of throwing or casting the ox. 

 Plate XXVII. Surgical instruments and sutures. ( After Reynders ami 

 Fleming. ) 



Figs. 1 and 2. Seton needles. These may be either long or short, straight 



or curved, according to the locality in which a sd't'in is to Ua inserted. 

 Fig. 3. Various forms of surgical needles. 

 Fig. 4. Suture forceps or needle holder, for passing needles through thick 



and dense tissues. 

 Fig. f). Knot properly tied. 



Figs. fi. 7, S, 9, 10. Various forms of sutures. Fig. 6, interrupted suture; 

 7, quilled suture ; S, unintci-rupted suture ; 9, twisted suture, made liy 

 passing suture pins tlirough the parts to be held together and wind- 

 ing the thread about them so as to represent the figure S; 10, single- 

 pin suture. 

 Fig. 11. Appliance for ringing the bull, one-fourth natural size. 

 Fig. 12. X^ose clamp, with spring and keeper. 

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