[Fistulation technic for the digestive tract of swine for the examination of protein metabolism].

Chyme may be collected quantitatively without grave risk from various sections of the intestinal tract of swine by reentrant cannulae, if such chyme is required for tests in the context of nutritional physiology. Techniques of anaesthesia and surgery for bridge fistula application are described together with the types of syringes needed as well as with aspects relating to presurgical and postoperative attention to the animals concerned.