. THE HYPODEKMIC SVKINGE. This has been used extensively for many years in human patients, and is even better adapted to animals, on account of the difficulty of forcing them to take remedies, and the more prompt and certain action of the subcutaneous method. Of course, very concentrated forms of medicines are used, as but a few drops or a half teaspoonful are thrown by the syringe at a time. But modern chemistry offers such potent and intense preparations that this is no objection. In giving a hypodermic injection it is not very important what part of the animal we choose, though the general
. THE HYPODEKMIC SVKINGE. This has been used extensively for many years in human patients, and is even better adapted to animals, on account of the difficulty of forcing them to take remedies, and the more prompt and certain action of the subcutaneous method. Of course, very concentrated forms of medicines are used, as but a few drops or a half teaspoonful are thrown by the syringe at a time. But modern chemistry offers such potent and intense preparations that this is no objection. In giving a hypodermic injection it is not very important what part of the animal we choose, though the general rule is to select a point near the seat of disease. It is best to shave or clip the hair for a space of a few inches; next, 2)inching up the skin a slight cut is made in one end of the little ridge thus elevated and the nozzle of the syringe in- serted and pushed its full length, parallel to the surface, in the loose tissue beneath the ridge; then it is withdrawn half way and the contents of the syringe throMu slowly and
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