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DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY. 
and thrash around so as to smash manger and stall into kindling- 
wood. 
The cause, no doubt, is due to a ptomaine poisoning from 
the corn affecting the nervous system, but why it affects the 
front quarters more than the hind I cannot say. 
DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY. 
By L. A. and E. Meriluat, 
of the McKillip Veterinary College , Chicago , III . 
SURGERY OF THE URETER. 
Operations upon the ureters are of recent origin, most of 
them having sprung into existence during the last decade. At 
a meeting of the American Surgical Congress in 1894 a paper was 
read before the association by Dr. Christian Fenger, of Chicago, 
Illinois, which fully reviewed the surgical operations of this 
nature that were then on record ; since then many experiments 
have been made to test the efficiency of such interference. At 
present we have not time to investigate the progress made in 
this line by foreign surgeons, who evidently would excel our 
efforts in the proportion to the relative efficiency of the profes¬ 
sion in the continents respectively. In our resume of the sur¬ 
gery of the ureters we shall be guided by the following out- 
line : 
(A) Indications for surgical interference. 
I. Surgical Wounds. 
II. Accidental Injuries. 
III. Neoplastic Growths. 
IV. Calculi. 
(B) Surgical operations. 
I. Ureterotomy. 
II. Uretero-reetostomy. 
III. Uretero-Ureterostomy. 
I. Surgical Wounds .—These wounds may be inflicted dur¬ 
ing operations in the region of the ureter. In nephrotomy the 
ureter may be accidentally injured and the wound thus inflicted 
may be intra- or extra-peritoneal, and longitudinal or transverse. 
The longitudinal intra-peritoneal incision can be sutured by 
Czerny or Uembert sutures, and, if necessary, it can be rein¬ 
forced by taking a fold of peritoneum with the edge of the 
