. The common colics of the horse : their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment . Dotted line marking theposition of secondarywound for drainasre. Fig. 5.—Seat of Laparo-Enterotomy (Macqueens Operation). filled with hot water for rinsing hands and instruments;and pail No. 4 is filled with boiling water, which is pro-tected from dust and allowed to cool. This water willbe required to wash the bowel after suture. Ahdominal Incision.—The linea alba offers the leastvascular and shortest route to the interior of the i6o THE COMMON COLICS OF THE HORSE abdomen. Through an incision of the white li
. The common colics of the horse : their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment . Dotted line marking theposition of secondarywound for drainasre. Fig. 5.—Seat of Laparo-Enterotomy (Macqueens Operation). filled with hot water for rinsing hands and instruments;and pail No. 4 is filled with boiling water, which is pro-tected from dust and allowed to cool. This water willbe required to wash the bowel after suture. Ahdominal Incision.—The linea alba offers the leastvascular and shortest route to the interior of the i6o THE COMMON COLICS OF THE HORSE abdomen. Through an incision of the white line anyorgan within the cavity can be felt, the small and largeintestines in part can be seen, and to some extent. Skin. Cut fibres of ex-ternal oblique. Second incisionparallel withthe fibres ofthe internaloblique. (Thefibres of thetransversaliscan be seenthrough thewound.) Fig. 6.—Operation Wound (Laparo-Enterotomy). Showing the first incision through the skin and across the fibres ofthe external obUque. (Enlarged from Fig. 5.) portions of these viscera can be withdrawn; but thecolic mesentery is too short to permit the first part of SURGICAL TREATMENT i6i the floating colon to pass through the wound. Besides,if the incision is made at this point the wound does notheal rapidly, and adhesion between its peritoneal surfaceand omentum or bowel is a probable complication. Inthe horse, incision of the abdomen an inch or two tothe right or left of the linea alba is equally the floating colon has to be opened, I prefer to reachthe bowel through the flank (see Fig. 5, p. 159). In openingthe flank I make three wounds before touching the peri-toneum. The first divides the skin, fascia
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