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Title: Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Subjects: Horses Horses -- Diseases Horses -- Diseases
Publisher: London, England : Hurst and Blackett, Ltd.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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in a stable, heshould have a bed of clean straw to lie on, and not one of peat moss,which is apt to harbour disease germs, such as those of scirrhouscord. A liberal supply of soft diet, residence in a clean, airy box,and judicious exercise greatly facilitate recovery. Horses livingin the open can be safely turned out immediately after the operation.Casualties on account of this practice are rare. In districts where tetanus is common, it would, if practicable, bewell to render recently castrated horses immune to this disease byprotective inoculation (p. 530). ( PASSING THE CATHETEK. 655 In castrating donkeys it is probably the best plan to ligature theartery, which has a very rigid wall in these animals. Peritonitis (p. 114), bleeding (p. 114), scirrKous cord (p. 122),and tetanus (p. 527) are the chief unfavourable results of cas-tration. Catheter, Passing the. The male catheter is a long, flexible tube of somewhat smallerdiameter than the urethra (the canal by which the urine escapes
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Fig. 166.—Lifling up the horses head when he is on the ground. from the bladder) and is used to draw off the urine which theanimal is unable to discharge. It is provided with a whalebonestillet to give it rigidity. The horse should be back-raked previous to the operation. If thecatheter is to be j^assed while he is standing up, his two hind legsmay be hobbled together, a fore leg held up, and a twitcb appliedto his upper lip. An assistant should draw out the head of the penis (glans penis)from the sheath. If he finds difficulty in inserting his hand, heshould oil or grease the back of it. The operator, standing on theright side of the animal, and having oiled the point of the catheter,should introduce it carefully into the urethra (Fig. 141, p. 351), and 656 OPEKATIONS. should pass the catheter, containing the stillet, gently upwards untilits point arrives at the bend which the urethra makes before itenters the bladder. The catheter can be felt, by the finger, on themedian line dire

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