3i8 Surgical Diseases and Surgery of thei Dog 



allowed to protrude from the wound, to be removed later on wher 

 healing is complete. A dressing of antiseptic powder and gauz« 

 should be applied and held in place with bandages and renewed 

 daily. A close watch must be kept for suppuration for a few 

 succeeding days, and if such takes place an opening be made 

 to give exit to the pus. As a rule, healing is quick to follow. 



AMPUTATION OF THE DEW-CLAW DIGIT. 



Dew-claws are unsightly, and it is frequently desirable to re- 

 move them for this if for no other reason. But they may also 

 become the seat of painful in-growing nail and of injury from 

 extraneous causes. 



When the digit exhibits no union with the main bone it is a 

 simple matter to snip it off with scissors, and if necessary, ligate 

 the nutrient vessel. In this case, no sutures are necessary, the 

 animal being allowed to attend to the wound itself. Where there 

 is true bony connection, the operation partakes of the nature of 

 true amputation, as described above. Suturing is generally advis- 

 able, but the lower extremity of the wound should be left open to 

 afford drainage. As in the preceding instance, the animal should 

 be allowed to lick the wound, though by so doing it may rid itself 

 of the stitches, 



DISARTICULATION OF THE PHALANGES. 



The various steps of this operation differ but little from those 

 proper to Amputation, except that the section is made at the joint 

 by division of the ligaments. 



BIBLIOGEAPHY. 



Bayer — Monatsb. t. prakt. thierhellk. 1896-97> p. 18. 

 Brnckmneller — Cited by Eltt in Lehrb. d. Path. Anat. Dlafn. 1. 

 ColUn— Rec. de MM. V6t6r. 1824, p. 403. 

 Dnconrnean — Bee. de MCd. V6t6r. 1900, p. 188. 

 Hnldekoper — Jonrn. Comp. Med. & Sarg. 1888, p. 169. 

 BlmondB — Proceedings of the Vet. Asan. 1840.41, p. ET. 



The Taa 



CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS. 



Anomalous formations are occasionally seen in newly-bom 

 animals. Heredity would seem to play a part. In one instance 

 which came under my notice, in a family of Skye Terriers, some 



