. Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners; . Fig. 155—Severing the Ovaries. O, Left Arm; P, Incision; Q, Emasculator; R, Right Hand. left arm through the incision, and its head placed above the ovary,and by bringing the handles together the ovary is severed from itsattachment. (See Fig. 155.) 8. The left ovary is now located by following the right cornua Animal Castration 177 back to the body of uterus where the left cornua is following it upwards and backwards the left ovary is encoun-tered and severed in like maimer. 9. Withdraw the hand—containing


. Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners; . Fig. 155—Severing the Ovaries. O, Left Arm; P, Incision; Q, Emasculator; R, Right Hand. left arm through the incision, and its head placed above the ovary,and by bringing the handles together the ovary is severed from itsattachment. (See Fig. 155.) 8. The left ovary is now located by following the right cornua Animal Castration 177 back to the body of uterus where the left cornua is following it upwards and backwards the left ovary is encoun-tered and severed in like maimer. 9. Withdraw the hand—containing both ovaries—with instru-ment. When this is done the fibers of the internal and externaloblique abdominal muscles come together and anatomically closethe wound with the exception of the skin incision. 10. With 3 interrupted sutures the skin incision is closed andthe operation is completed. (See Fig. 156.). Fig. 156—The Skin Incision Closed by Three Interrupted Sutures. X, Sutures; O, Incision, Incision Illustrated and Explained—The exact method of in-vading the abdominal cavity through the flank incision is of specialimportance if successful spaying is to be done. Undoubtedly theincision is the most important step of the whole operation. It ismade and closed as follows: (See Figs. 157, 158 and 159. Studythese illustrations carefully.) With knife in right hand the skinincision G. G, (Fig. 157) is made. Thrust point of knife through 12 178 Animal Castration .


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