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A New Docking Machine
A JVew Docking Machi"ne.
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not feel in his usual state of health, and his arm began to swell and be painful. The symptoms becoming more acute, he, on the ninth day, went into hospital. The doctor who examined the arm at once diagnosed the case as one of" malignant pustule." The man had an aperient and the angrylooking sore was well poulticed. The following day pus taken from the part was microscopically examined, and the presenc~ of numerous characteristic anthrax bacilli was detected. The patient was operated on without delay by removal of the pustule and surrounding tissues, a solution of coccaine being used. Slight feverishness, with increased temperature and partial loss of appetite, which lasted but a few days, were the only subsequent unfavourable symptoms; and when I last heard from my friend, the doctor, the patient was convalescent and doing well. I may add that during last year there was a slight outbreak of anthrax at the same station, but no case has occurred since the one noted.
A NEW DOCKING MACHINE. BY j. j. BURCHNALL, M.R.C.V.S., LOUGHBOROUGH.
I BEG to call the attention of the profession to a new docker which contains the following advantages :-The handles are cramped, which allows of the hands being kept at a lower level, by which more power is acquired. The slot is open at the bottom, to facilitate cleaning. The blade does not bury itself in the slot ; thus not necessitating the top handle to be raised nearly so high in as the ordinary machines. The ease with which the strongest dock is removed will make the instrument a boon to the short or nervous practitioner. ThP. machine is manufactured by Messrs. Arnold and Sons, of West Smithfield, London. VOL. XXXVII.
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not feel in his usual state of health, and his arm began to swell and be painful. The symptoms becoming more acute, he, on the ninth day, went into hospital. The doctor who examined the arm at once diagnosed the case as one of" malignant pustule." The man had an aperient and the angrylooking sore was well poulticed. The following day pus taken from the part was microscopically examined, and the presenc~ of numerous characteristic anthrax bacilli was detected. The patient was operated on without delay by removal of the pustule and surrounding tissues, a solution of coccaine being used. Slight feverishness, with increased temperature and partial loss of appetite, which lasted but a few days, were the only subsequent unfavourable symptoms; and when I last heard from my friend, the doctor, the patient was convalescent and doing well. I may add that during last year there was a slight outbreak of anthrax at the same station, but no case has occurred since the one noted.
A NEW DOCKING MACHINE. BY j. j. BURCHNALL, M.R.C.V.S., LOUGHBOROUGH.
I BEG to call the attention of the profession to a new docker which contains the following advantages :-The handles are cramped, which allows of the hands being kept at a lower level, by which more power is acquired. The slot is open at the bottom, to facilitate cleaning. The blade does not bury itself in the slot ; thus not necessitating the top handle to be raised nearly so high in as the ordinary machines. The ease with which the strongest dock is removed will make the instrument a boon to the short or nervous practitioner. ThP. machine is manufactured by Messrs. Arnold and Sons, of West Smithfield, London. VOL. XXXVII.
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