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by a little machine (Fig. 15), composed of a thin iron rod 
in a handle, the other end of which is thickened and pierced 
by holes running nearly parallel to the stalk. Into these 
holes the two wires of one side are passed ; the machine 
on each side is pulled up as close as possible to the head of 
the foetus, and, each being turned round three or four times, 
the neck is enclosed in a kind of noose or collar formed by 
the two wires (Fig. 16). 
“ The rods are now withdrawn from the latter, and the 
foetus can be extracted by exercising traction on the four 
ends of the wires outside the vulva. By this contrivance 
delivery is effected without injury to the bitch, and, unless 
FIG. 16, 
DEFAYS’ WIRE EXTRACTOR APPLIED. 
it is much decomposed, without separating the head of the 
foetus. 
“We have tried Defays’ apparatus, and can speak highly 
of it; not unfrequently we have succeeded in extracting 
the puppy alive, and when the use of forceps would have 
been impossible. e 
“A much simpler, readier, and perhaps more successful 
apparatus (so far as our experience enables us to speak) is 
that devised by Breulet, of Marche, Belgium, which meets 
every requirement in the accouchement of small bitches, 
and might be successfully employed with sows, ewes, and 
goats, 
