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OPEBATIONS ON THE GENITO-UEINABY APPARATUS. 



Straight. Curved. 



Figs. 471, 472.— Forceps to remove Foreign Bodies from tlie Bladder. 



extracted with straight or curve forceps. These can also be em- 

 ployed to secure those of comparatively small size that may be 

 found in the bladder, and answer very weU likewise for those 

 masses of a sedimentary nature that are commonly seen in mares. 



There may sometime be some peculiar pathological conditions 

 which render it necessary to prevent the closing of the wound in 

 cases of ischial urethrotomy, and when the formation of a permar 

 nent artifioal opening should, perhap, be attempted. 



The entire closing of the urethra, in its anterior portion, re- 



