cow, HEIFER AND CAI.P WI'AYING 



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10. With tlu-et' interrupted sutiiivs tlic skin incision is closed Miid the 

 operation is completed. (Pij)-. ^'^(i). 



fncision Illustrated (tiul K.rphrnivd^'VW c.Kact method of invading- the 

 abdominal cavity through the Hank incision is of special imixirtance if snc- 

 eessful spaying is to be done. Undonbtedly the incision is the most im- 

 portant step of the whole operation. It is made and closed as follows: 



Kig. 15!) — Skin incision closed by three interrupted sutures. H, H. Lips of skin 

 incisions; I. .J. K, silk sutures. 



(See Figs. 157, 158 and 159. Study these illustrations carefully.) AVith 

 the knife in the right hand the skin incision Gr, G, (Fig. 157) is made. The 

 point of the knife is thrust through the remaining portion of the abdominal 

 wall (external obliqne and internal oblique abdominal muscles and perito- 

 neum). With the fingers this perforation (A, Fig. 158) is enlarged by 

 tearing the fibers of tlie external oblique apart, B, B, and at the same time 

 those of the internal oblique, C, C, are separated in the opposite direction 

 until the hand can be admitted. AVhen the hand is withdrawn the mus- 



