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and abdominal muscles should be united by three or four interrupted 

 sutures. The wound should then be painted with tincture of iodin 

 and with a fly repellent, and the sows placed in clean quarters. 



Ablation of the Mammary Glands 



Eemoval of the mammae of swine is advisable when they are in- 

 vaded with tumors, extensively lacerated or affected with actinomyco- 

 sis, botryomycosis, necrobacillosis and some other infections. 



Operation is indicated when the injury or disease process can not 

 be relieved by therapeutic agents. 



The animal should be properly restrained and narcotized by chloral 

 hydrate injected per rectum. The operative field should be cleaned 

 and painted with tincture of iodin. An incision should be made par- 

 allel to the median line over the central portion of the affected gland 

 unless the skin is involved, when the incision should be so made as not 

 to pass through the diseased portion. After the incision has been 

 made and hemorrhag'e controlled the skin should be separated from 



Fig. 111. TtTMOR OF THE MAMMARY GLAND. 



the gland and the gland from the underlying structures by blunt dis- 

 section. The larger blood-vessels should be ligated and the gland re- 

 moved after hemorrhage is controlled and fragments of tissue re- 



