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VETERINARY SURGICAL OPERATIONS 



sterilized when needed; then, if each needle is picked up with 

 a thumb forcep and inserted with the needle-holder, stitch 

 suppuration will become an exception instead of a rule. 



CLASSIFICATION.- -We will describe only those su- 

 tures especially useful in veterinary operations which are: 

 (i) Interrupted sutures, (2) uninterrupted sutures or con- 



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Figs. 52 and 53— Interrupted Sutures. 



tinuous sutures; (3) mattress sutures; (4) button sutures; 

 (5) interrupted crucial sutures; (6) removable buried 

 sutures; and (7) Czerny-Lembert sutures. 



Interrupted sutures consist of a series of single loops, 

 each tied by individual knots. (Figs. 52-53.) These are far 

 the most common sutures used in veterinary surgery, being 

 in fact almost the universal sutures for ordinary surface 



Figs. 54 and 55— Continuous Sutures. 



wounds. They possess the advantage of preserving con- 

 tiguity, even when component parts of the integral work give 

 way here and there; of effecting a more perfect and more 

 uniform independent apposition at all parts of the breach; 

 and of admitting of a variable tension according as the char- 

 acter of the wound necessitates. 





