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order to prevent wounding the intestine. The wound should 

 then be closed by means of the interrupted suture. A folded 

 cloth should then be applied to the part, and retained by means of 

 a continuous bandage crossed between the legs from side to side 

 in the form of the figure 8. Sometimes the intestine becomes 

 strangulated, constituting strangulated hernia, the reduction of 

 which requires an operation as before mentioned. If, however, 

 it is found impossible, then to reduce it, the finger should be 

 passed through the opening, if possible, and a probe-pointed 

 bistoury following upon it, enlarge the opening and replace the 

 intestine. The same treatment as before indicated will be ne- 

 cessary. 



The symptoms of strangulated hernia are very similar to 

 those of acute enteritis, or inflammation of the bowels. These 

 may be regarded as the only hernias to which the horse is 

 liable. 



ROWELING. 



Kowels were formerly much used, but of late years the seton 

 has superseded them. The rowel consists of a round piece of 

 sole leather, cut out in the centre wound round with tow, which 

 is saturated before using with digestive ointment. The skin is 

 cut through, and dissected upon each side sufficiently to admit 

 the rowel. This is used principally under the jaws and in the 

 breast. The seton answers the same purpose, and is much more 

 convenient. It consists in arming a needle made for the pur- 

 pose with tape and passing it through the part desired, the 

 seton being saturated with the same ointment as the rowel. 



