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Title: Surgical and obstetrical operations
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, W. L. (Walter Long), 1856-1945 Pfeiffer, Wilhelm, 1870-
Subjects: Veterinary surgery
Publisher: Ithaca, N. Y., The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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LIGATION OF THE CAROTID ARTERY, 83 needle, mouse-toothed forceps, ligation forceps, suturematerial. Technic. The operation is possible on the standinganimal with the aid of cocaine or other local anaesthetic butit is preferable to confine the patient in lateral recumbencyand anaesthetize. The operatioD is made at the same point as for phlebotomyand the same cutaneous wound, a, Plate XIV, ma)^ be usedfor this purpose. The incision should be at least 10 cm.long extending through the skin, flesh) panniculus andsubscapulo-hyoideus muscles and then a passage forced withthe fingers, to the trachea. At the region of the neckindicated, the carotid passes along the border between thelateral and dorsal surfaces of the trachea, accompanieddorsalh b)- the vagus and sympathetic nerves and ventrallyb) the recurrent. (In Figure 2, Plate XIV, the vagusand sympathetic nerves, v and s, are pushed out of theirnormal position and appear ventrally to the carotid.) Passthe index finger over and behind the

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