. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. d by railroad porters, may be made (see ). This truck should be about eight feet long bythree feet wide ; the platform should be about two feetfrom the ground, and above the top of the four wheelswhich must support it. Iron sockets should be placed 641 Veterinary Exam,Veterinary Exam. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. near the edge of the platform, and sunk into the wood sothat the top will come even with the floor of the sockets
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. d by railroad porters, may be made (see ). This truck should be about eight feet long bythree feet wide ; the platform should be about two feetfrom the ground, and above the top of the four wheelswhich must support it. Iron sockets should be placed 641 Veterinary Exam,Veterinary Exam. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. near the edge of the platform, and sunk into the wood sothat the top will come even with the floor of the sockets must be so placed that they will come op-posite each of the four limbs. They should be of justthe right size to allow the uprights to fit into uprights should be iron bars about four feet longand one inch thick. They should have a shepherdscrook on the end, to which the cords which hold the legsin place may be secured. These bars should fit looselyinto the sockets, so that they can be removed easily atany time. The animal can be hoisted on to the truck by means ofa Yale pulley. When placed in position, the iron bars. Fig. 45SU.—Post-mortem Examination on a Small Animal. can be put in and the legs secured to them, as shown inFig. 4581. Everything is now ready. The animal is inposition, the instruments are sharpened, and buckets ofclean water and sponges are at hand. The first proced-ure is to make a general inspection of the animal : 1, Asto, color; 2, sex ; 8, age ; 4, weight ; 5, general condi-tion ; 6, condition of abdomen, whether much distendedor not; 7, any abnormal appearances about the skin,such as scars, abrasions of the surface, evidence of havingbeen blistered, or of the actual cautery having been ap-plied ; 8, any abnormal prominences or depressions ; 9,condition of the hoofs ; in short, any abnormal appear-ances striking enough to be evident to the eye on generalinspection. The general inspection having been completed, aspecial inspection of the exterio
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