Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . )eration, called tenotomy, is most commonlypracticed on the tendon of the leg, and about midway between the knee andfetlock. Insert the knife across the tendons, with the l)lade on its side; letit go just to the skin on the other side, liut not through it; then turn theedge towards the outer part of the leg and saw away, tak
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . )eration, called tenotomy, is most commonlypracticed on the tendon of the leg, and about midway between the knee andfetlock. Insert the knife across the tendons, with the l)lade on its side; letit go just to the skin on the other side, liut not through it; then turn theedge towards the outer part of the leg and saw away, taking care not tocut the skin at the back of the leg. When the tendons are severed, breakup the adhesions by bending the leg across your knee. Dress the woundin the skin, treating as a simple wound. 558 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR,. PERFORMING TRACHEOTOMY. XXI. Tracheotomy. This consists of the insertion of a tube into the trachea or windpipe,to prevent death from threatened suffocation. The tube ought to be of silver, but in the absence ofthat, one made of tin will, in thewriters opinion, answer everypurpose; it should be three-quarters of an inch or an inch indiameter, curved so as to slipinto the windpipe easily, with aplate of the same material on theend to tie to the neck, in orderto keep it in place. Open theskin by an incision about twoinches long, at a point eightinches below the throat; divide themuscles, and lay bare the wind-pipe; cut out a piece of two rings, making a hole large enough to admitthe tube. Take the tube out and clean it with carbolic lotion No. 39, oncea day, and replace it as soonas possible. When the cause ofsuffocation is removed, the tubemay be taken out for hole will soon fill up andheal. Instead of using a roundtube and cutting out a sectionof two rings, it is preferable t
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