The San Francisco call., 1910-11-16
LIONESS HAS PART
OF Paw REMOVED
l30 Student Veterinarians See
Amputation by DR.. Henry
Afnling
10 Year Old Keeper Pats Head
of Sultana While She Is
Under AnesthetiC

Shaping and snarIing at the veter-
inarians as they tugged anu roped the
patient on the operating table, sultana,
young lioness from the Chutes, had
three joints of the right fore paw am
putated yesterday in the presence OF
about 130 students and instructors OF
the San Francisco veterinary college,
in the operating room at Webster and
Market streets. DR.. Henry Anling or
New York city performed the opera
ton, assisted by DR. A. V. Hail OF the
local college faculty. The unusual
spectacle of a roaring lfoness strug-
Cling in the pit of the stone chamber
in which the operation took place, and
surrounded by tiers of onlookers, was
nerve trying experience for those
present and required unusual courage
on the part of the number OF young
assistants who helped rope the 1.-the
beast to the table frame.
The occasion was made a special
event in the undergraduate work. Doc
tor Ambling, being an authority on
veterinary surgery, accepted special
invitation to perform the work and
lecture to the freshman, Junior and
senior classes during the amputation.
KEEPER PETS PATIENT
Sultana has been suffering from a
highly infiamed condition of the paw
tissues and a felon, ar-for some days
became almost unmanageable at the
Chutes. Arrangements having been
perfected for the operation of yeSter-
day, the young attendant removed the
lioness from the Chutes zoo to the
veterinary college. This was not at
tempted, however, until the animal had
been submitted to an injection OF
opiates. Arriving at the college the
beast was led into the operating room
and after quieting her the students
were allowed to assemble. The only
person to venture near the subject of
the operation was the attendant, who
constantly petted the head and talked
to the dumb sufferer. However, the
passing moments were made thrilling
by an occasional roar and snap and a
number of times the animal rolled to-
ward the student benches.
is GIVEN ANESTHETIC
When Doctor Amling gave the sign
Sultana's keeper, quieting his charge
with pets and words, lifted first the
head and shoulders on the table and
then the hind quarters. In second
the straps and ropes circled the pant
ing form and while the animal roared
the bindings were fastened. AT this
stage of the proceedings Doctor Am
ling made a heavy injection of opiates
and injected cocaine to beaded the pain
in the paw AS the lioness became
more quiet DR.. A. V. Hall administered
a heavy anesthetic through large
cone placed over the head.
AT this point Amling addressed the
students and proceeded with the oper-
alton, binding the paw, opening the
flesh and exposing the infected tissues
and bone One by one he removed the
joints and before Sultana recovered
from the aneSthetic had stitched to-
gether the wounds.
Constantly at the side of the animal
during the entire operation was the
one man in the room who had no fears
who seemed to be moved by a great
affection for his charge-Harry Rain
ford, the 10 year old guardian of the
sick lioness. After she recovered and
while she licked at the heavily ban
daged paw, the boy sat and stroked the
suffering jungle queen. After few
days at the hospital Sultana will be
returned to her cage at the zoo.