SURGICAL PRACTICE ON THE LOWER ANIMALS.
Abstract
It is reported that one of the leading medical schools of the East has adopted the plan of using the lower animals for surgical practice by students and that the method is found to have some decided advantages over the use of the cadaver for this purpose. Of course the anatomic conditions are not the same, but operating on a living animal will require the same conditions of asepsis and technic as would be adopted with a human being, and is, therefore, more instructive to the...