File: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 (14774765191).jpg

Identifier: livestockcyclope00bake (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
The animal is most easily worked on when she is in the standing position, with the feet hobbled, the head held by a twitch, and the body pressed against the wall.
506 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR.
'The left is the flank usually chosen. A vertical incision in the upper part of this region is made, sufficiently long to admit the hand, which is passed in and upwards; the horn of the uterus will be felt just below the rectum, as shown in the engraving, and, at the extremity of the horn, the egg-shaped ovary. The ovary is drawn out of the opening and removed with the escraseur, or by using a silk ligature and cutting it off with the scissors. Thus the left ovary is extirpated. The right is next to be felt for at the other horn of the uterus, and drawn out and removed in the same way. Spaying through the vagina requires special instruments; the principal are a concealed knife, the torsion forceps or the ecraseur, or ligature. It being too difficult an operation for anyone not an expert, our descrip-
Text Appearing After Image:
THE POSITION OF THE ORGANS OF THE MARE.
1—Uterus. 2—Horn of Uterus. 3—Vagina. 4—Bladder. 5—Rectum. 6—Anus. 7, 8—Vulva. 9—Ovary. 10—Oviduct to Uterus. 11—Kidney. 12—Abdominal Muscle.
tion of it will purposely be condensed. The place where the opening is made is the vagina, at a point just behind the neck of the womb, at the top of the cavity. The opening needs to be about two and one-half inches long, and parallel with the cavity. Through it the finger is passed, and the ovary, when secured, is drawn into the opening and twisted off with the forceps, or crushed off with the ecraseur, or cut off with the knife and the vessels ligatured. This process is then repeated on the opposite side. There are other instruments for dilating the vagina, and for guiding to the place to cut, that we have not described; they are very costly, and of no use to the average horse owner.

Note About Images