A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . Fig. Scalpel Embryotom. Giinther figures an embryotom fixed on a handle, and which may beof any convenient length—about thirty inches is recommended (Fig. 203);the blade is semicircular, the concave border and point being verysharp. This instrument is extolled for it usefulness in cutting throughthe muscles subcutaneously, and especially in separating the limbs fromthe trunk. The same authority gives the figure of a Scheerenmess
A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . Fig. Scalpel Embryotom. Giinther figures an embryotom fixed on a handle, and which may beof any convenient length—about thirty inches is recommended (Fig. 203);the blade is semicircular, the concave border and point being verysharp. This instrument is extolled for it usefulness in cutting throughthe muscles subcutaneously, and especially in separating the limbs fromthe trunk. The same authority gives the figure of a Scheerenmesser,. Fig. Spring Embryotom. or secator, as it has been termed. This is an instrument aboutthirty-six inches in length, composed of two branches, held togetherby two short sheaths, through which the one glides on the other. Eachof the branches has a blade placed at a right angle to the stalk ; theseblades are opposite each other, the opposing edges being sharp, andthey are brought in contact by a rachet arrangement and screw moved EMliRYoToMY :.37 by a handle at the other extremity. This instrument is very powerful,and can divide bones as well as soft tissues. Subcutaneous embryotomy is at times very necessaxy, but after theskin has been incised great dilhculty is often experienced in separatingit from the textures beneath, by tearing through the connective is found to be the case more particularly in amputating theshoulder, when the lingers become fatigued in trying to pass thembeneatli the skin. To facilitate this part of the operation, dillerent-
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