114 CANINE AND FELINE SURGERY. 



the time of operating or afterwards. All arteries and veins 

 should be ligatured during the progress of the operation. Two 

 of our most promising patients (inguinal cases) slowly bled to 

 death within three days after the operation, through injury 

 to some veins at the time of operating. (3) Peritonitis, which 

 can only be avoided by absolutely following out the principles 

 and details of aseptic surger}'. 



These statements are based upon thirty-nine consecutive 

 cases,^ of which twenty-five were inguinal, nine umbilical, two 

 abdominal, two scrotal, and one perineal. 



' "Veterinarian," March 1890; "Journal of Comparative Pathology and Theia 

 peuticB," Vol. Vlll., p. 151, Vol. X., p. 170; "Veterinary Record," Vol. X. p. 2t2. 



