390 DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES. 



augmenting, and ending in the production of most violent convulsions ; 

 the stercoral matters, forced onward by the peristaltic action, accumulate 

 within the portion of gut incarcerated in the inguinal canal, adding 

 aggravation to the case. Parts so swift to take on gangrene are most 

 urgent in calling for relief; and this can be rendered in no other way 

 than by setting them free from strangulation. 



"When the testicle is not removed, the aperture in the 

 scrotum is to be closed by suture. Commonly, adhesion 

 between the testicle and its vaginal tunic follows this 

 operation. M. Girard relates a case in which, from the 

 incisions being too freely extended, the operation — which 

 was finished by castration a testicule decouvert — was speedily- 

 succeeded by eventration (or the escape of the intestines), 

 whose ejection augmenting at every successive heave, became 

 at length too voluminous to admit of the possibility of 

 return. In another case, laceration of the stricture hap- 

 pened at the time the fingers were introducing underneath 

 it, and thus its division by the knife became superseded : 

 this is an event, however, not to be desired, much less 

 promoted. 



OPERATION FOU THE HERNIA OF CASTRA- 

 TION. — If one might venture to direct attention to one 

 part of the important subject of hernia in preference to 

 another, to a practitioner in England, it would be the 

 section now coming under consideration. Some sad occur- 

 rences are yet fresh in the memory of many veterinarians, 

 which, were they to occur in the present advanced state of 

 veterinary science, might not have the same unfortunate 

 issue : at least, not in the hands of such among us as have 

 taken the sound precaution — a duty incumbent upon us all 

 — of making themselves as well acquainted with this as with 

 other more practised branches of their profession. 



The English Method or Castration is of a nature to 

 be converted by the presence of hernia into an operation 

 pregnant with difficulty and danger. There is difficulty in 

 prosecuting the operation, should its prosecution under such 



