150 SPRINGTIME SURGERY 



After the animal falls keep the rope tight and 

 it will very soon cease to attempt to rise. Then 

 have an assistant take the rope and pull strongly 

 upon it almost at a right-angle to the long axis of 

 the animal's body, standing just a little bit back 

 of where a right angle line would run. Allow 

 the legs to remain free and the animal to use 

 them as much as it likes. In this way the strug- 

 gling will do no harm and even cows heavy with 

 calf may be operated upon for lump jaw or other 

 ailments without the slightest danger of produc- 

 ing an abortion or otherwise injuring them. 



With the animal in this condition an operation 

 upon the fore feet or fore legs offers little diffi- 

 culty. Simply flex the legs strongly and tie them 

 there. The hind feet offer a little more difficulty, 

 particularly if it is desirable to keep an animal 

 in an advanced stage of pregnancy from injur- 

 ing itself through struggling, but the ingenious 

 veterinarian will have little difficulty. 



To Control Cattle in a Standing Position.* 

 — For castrating old bulls, or for giving them 



•Reprinted from the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, July, 

 1911. 



