dogfennel off, oiled the bowels. I then slipped my hand 

 into the inguinal passage up to the ring; then grasped the 

 bowels and put them back through the rupture by lifting 

 one inch at a time, when the horse was on his side and the 

 rupture up. I then split into the inguinal channel as high 

 as I could conveniently, about halfway up to the ring, up 

 and down, three inches long, so I could then see where to 

 put my needle, still above my last cut, so as to close the su- 

 ture around the channel above. That horse made a good 

 recover}', but strange to say, he was never seen to show 

 stringhalt afterward and soon sold for a good price. 



I forgot to speak of one ridgling I castrated in Kentucky. 

 He had been unsuccessfully operated upon repeatedly on 

 both sides, and was hard and Calloused in the groin. I 

 spayed him (the only one I ever did that way) in the right 

 side, as we do cows in the left side. He got his pint and a 

 half of linseed oil twenty-four hours previously, and twelve 

 of my one-drachm doses of castrating tincture promptly af- 

 terward, and the antiseptics were used freely. He did well 

 in recovering. 



SOMK OF MY MISTAKES ON DOGS 



I spayed an eight-month-old pup, and by mistake got one 

 ureta, instead of one horn of the uterus, and broke it off 

 near the kidney. Then, for experiment, I cut it off near the 

 bladder, and then spayed her. She was helpless for several 

 days after, and filied up, seemingly with water. She broke 

 at the incision several times, and the water ran out, but she 

 finally got well in two months. 



I spayed a four-weeks-old pup, and made the same mis- 

 take, and it lived. But the nicest job I ever did in spaying 

 was on three- month-old pups. The second one was spayed 



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