Sam
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If you don't have a friendly doc:
Go to the pet department at Wal Mart.
They have tetracycline for dosing fish tanks.
Your local feed store will have amoxicillin and and a couple of others available without prescription. Check out the veterinary supply houses on line. They have a large number of items available without prescription along with syringes and other items.
I am not a doc or a surgeon, but I have been sewing up dogs, and livestock since I was 14 or 15. Sewed up a couple of GIs on deployment and they lived. Doc says I do pretty sutures. Only ever lost one patient,an angora nanny that developed gangrene after being set on by a pack of dogs. Common sense told me to shoot her that night but I figured I had nothing to loose.
Have the stuff
Read all the books
(Start with a reference copy of Grays Anatomy and a PDR then scarf up all those GI meatball surgery manuals) Johnson and Johnson Ethicon division used to ahve a 150 page on line manual for suturing that is really good but I cannot find it anymore
Most of the livestock will sit real still for you,they know you are helping them. My dogs are especially calm when I work on them and people too if you don't wait too long. The pain of the wound masks what is really minor pain of suturing. If I get an uppity sheep or calf, I blindfold them, tape a couple of rags over their nose and wet the rags with starting fluid, just enough to make them woozy I suspect it would work as well with people.
I DO NOT RECCOMEND DOSING JUNIOR WITH ETHER! But plenty of folks never had anything better than a big glass of whisky or 5-6 strong buddies to hold 'em down. Remember stuff like this is for emergencies when there isn't any other medical help.
When the time comes that you have nothing to loose, you will know.
Sam
P.S. I don't think highly of quick clot and ground cayenne works just as well without the exothermic reaction.
Go to the pet department at Wal Mart.
They have tetracycline for dosing fish tanks.
Your local feed store will have amoxicillin and and a couple of others available without prescription. Check out the veterinary supply houses on line. They have a large number of items available without prescription along with syringes and other items.
I am not a doc or a surgeon, but I have been sewing up dogs, and livestock since I was 14 or 15. Sewed up a couple of GIs on deployment and they lived. Doc says I do pretty sutures. Only ever lost one patient,an angora nanny that developed gangrene after being set on by a pack of dogs. Common sense told me to shoot her that night but I figured I had nothing to loose.
Have the stuff
Read all the books
(Start with a reference copy of Grays Anatomy and a PDR then scarf up all those GI meatball surgery manuals) Johnson and Johnson Ethicon division used to ahve a 150 page on line manual for suturing that is really good but I cannot find it anymore
Most of the livestock will sit real still for you,they know you are helping them. My dogs are especially calm when I work on them and people too if you don't wait too long. The pain of the wound masks what is really minor pain of suturing. If I get an uppity sheep or calf, I blindfold them, tape a couple of rags over their nose and wet the rags with starting fluid, just enough to make them woozy I suspect it would work as well with people.
I DO NOT RECCOMEND DOSING JUNIOR WITH ETHER! But plenty of folks never had anything better than a big glass of whisky or 5-6 strong buddies to hold 'em down. Remember stuff like this is for emergencies when there isn't any other medical help.
When the time comes that you have nothing to loose, you will know.
Sam
P.S. I don't think highly of quick clot and ground cayenne works just as well without the exothermic reaction.
