. Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners; . Fig. 154—Skin Incision. F, External Oblique Abdominal Muscle. 176 Animal Castration 4. In the center of this skin incision the knife point shouldbe thrust through the abdominal wall, making a perforation largeenough to admit one finger only. The knife is now put aside, asyou have no further use for it. 5. One finger of the operating hand is thrust through the ab-dominal wall perforation, and by stretching the wound two fingersare admitted—index fingers of each hand. With these two fingerstear the muscular fibers apart suf
. Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners; . Fig. 154—Skin Incision. F, External Oblique Abdominal Muscle. 176 Animal Castration 4. In the center of this skin incision the knife point shouldbe thrust through the abdominal wall, making a perforation largeenough to admit one finger only. The knife is now put aside, asyou have no further use for it. 5. One finger of the operating hand is thrust through the ab-dominal wall perforation, and by stretching the wound two fingersare admitted—index fingers of each hand. With these two fingerstear the muscular fibers apart sufficiently to admit the whole hand. 6. With left hand inside the abdominal cavity the body of theuterus is located, after which follow its right cornua upwardsand backwards until right ovary is encountered. 7. With right hand the emasculator is now passed along the. 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.)
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