IS2 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



each being turned round three or four times, the neck is en- 

 closed in a kind of noose or collar formed by the two wires 

 (Fig. i6). 



" The rods are now withdrawn from the latter, and the 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 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. 



Fig. i6. 

 Defavs* Wirk Extractor Applied. 



" 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. 



Breulet*s Tube and Noose. 



This apparatus is the same in principle as Defays' wire ex- 

 tractor, but there is only one wire. The principal part of the 



