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DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY 
and as soon as the bifurcation of the uterus is reached, the right 
horn is brought out of the cavity in the same manner. Both 
ovaries are then cut, pinched off with the finger-nails. In 
young sows the whole uterus can be taken off without damage ; 
but in older ones only the ovaries should be removed, and the 
body of the uterus should not be drawn out of the cavity. The 
horns of ,tlie uterus should be returned into the cavity ; the 
wound stitched ; the animal turned into a clean cool stall ; and 
they should receive nothing but clean water for the next twelve 
hours, followed by easily digested food. Bight exercise may be 
given after the first day. 
Chinese Method.— The operation through the linea alba 
is not performed so often and is not so difficult for an inexperi¬ 
enced operator as the one just described. 
The pig is suspended by the hind legs, or held in a dorsal 
position upon a table. An S-shaped probe (Fig. 33-B) is in¬ 
serted into the uterus, passing it along the superior wall of the 
vagina to prevent it from entering the urethra, and into the 
uterus through the cervix. A chisel-shaped knife (Fig. 33-C) 
is pressed through the abdominal wall close to the linea^alba, 
or laterally to the last left teat. The dull hook is then intro¬ 
duced into the cavity and a search made for the uterus, which 
is easily found and brought into the wound. The first ovary is 
brought outside and detached ; the second is treated in the same 
manner. The wound is stitched, and it usually heals by first in¬ 
tention. The complications are haemorrhage and peritonitis. 
The first causes death within the first twenty-four hours ; the 
second in from three to thirty-six days. Torsion is the best 
remedy for the first complication, and antiseptics for the second. 
OOPHORECTOMY (OVARIOTOMY) IN THE BITCH. 
By Leon W. Young, M.D.C., Professor of Canine Surgery, McKillip Veter¬ 
inary College. 
The term ovariotomy in the medical vocabulary has been 
forced into meaning the extirpation of an ovary on account of 
some disease of its own structure. The word itself is a barbar¬ 
ous compound of Batin and Greek, meaning ovary and an in¬ 
cision. It occurs to me that oophorectomy (meaning to cut out 
the ovary) is the proper term, and far more appropriate to the 
operation usually performed by our profession. I11 modern 
usage by the medical profession, the term ovariotomy is limited 
to the operation for the removal of an ovary greatly enlarged by 
some disorder. By oophorectomy is meant the operation for the 
removal of diseased ovaries, or of both ovaries for the purpose of 
