DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY. 
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Pathological conditions of intra-abdominal cryptorchids may 
cause some inconvenience ; but the greater number of crypt¬ 
orchids are extra-abdominal and operators are only occasionally 
confronted with such conditions; a little care in determining the 
proper course to adopt in such cases adds to the success, and it 
is impossible to lay out a course that will be practical in every 
instance. After the operation the wound should be irrigated 
and carefully examined, and if the intestine does not extend 
into the inguinal canal he should be untied and placed into a 
clean comfortable stall. 
After-care .—For the first four or five days the wound should 
be opened morning and evening and washed with soap and hot 
water. If any indications of sepsis are noticed the wound 
should be explored and carefully washed with an antiseptic 
solution. Moderate exercise should be given once or twice a 
day, and the feed used must be of good quality, given in small 
quantity for the first two or three days. 
SURGICAL ITEMS. 
How many of us have sat by the hour at the feet of some 
learned professor and seen wonderfully skilled operations per¬ 
formed, and listened to his words of wisdom in the surgical 
clinics ; yet many of us could never consider such work worthy 
of much commendation while the poor brute groaned and fought 
from the acute pain of such operations as major punctured sole 
operations, or long, deep incisions in fistulous withers, or the 
frightful pain of neurectomy, when the near sighted operator 
would pinch the digital nerve with his forceps to distinguish it 
from the too neighborly artery ; and all this cruelty with plenty 
of chloroform, ether and cocaine at hand. * * * The highest 
ambition of any surgeon should be to relieve pain and not to 
cause it.— (Dr. J. P. Turner , A. V. M. A. Report , 
Tetanus .—While all fair-minded, observant veterinarians 
have failed to note any appreciable benefit from the use of tet¬ 
anus antitoxin in the treatment of tetanus, the same men never 
fail to laud this same product in the highest terms as a preven¬ 
tive. That tetanus antitoxin does prevent tetanus is no 
longer doubted by those who have given it a fair unbiased trial ; 
so the time has now come when all up-to-date veterinarians, 
especially those practicing in districts where tetanus is preva¬ 
lent, should consider their equipment incomplete without, at 
least, a small quantity of this serum within their reach at all 
times. It is very evident that within a comparatively short 
