Excision of Tuberculous Glands

not a single vessel has required ligature though the chain of glands on the carotid sheath have been excised and the internal jugular vein laid bare, as well as a group or groups in the posterior triangle; and I have not known it to be necessary to cut the sterno-mastoid in any single case, though the glands lay underneath this muscle. Although the neck may be loaded with enlarged glands, their removal becomes an operation in which all thought of the anatomy can be put aside, and the beginner can proceed with perfect confidence. It is necessary to be equipped with the following instruments:? (1) One Watson Cheyne's fine dissector, (2) One Smith's cleft palate raspatory, (3) One Jameson Johnston's gland enucleator,