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In those very rare instances where violence has played an 

 essential part in causing the rupture, there need be no pre- 

 monitory edema. The symptoms appear very suddenly : the 

 tumor is large, the pain intense, the expression anxious, the 

 body bedewed with cold sweat, the respiration hurried, the pulse 



Fig. 83. Rupture of the Pre-pubian Tendon in the Pregnant Mare. 

 Dissected abdominal floor of Fig. 82. 



TA, Abdominal tunic, showing ruptured margin displaced forwards. 



M, Transversalis muscle, the abdominal tunic removed, showing pos- 

 teriorly the ragged margin at point of rupture. 



CC, Sclerotic connective or cicatricial tissue constituting, with the 

 skin, the posterior portion of the floor of the hernial sac. 



T, Teats displaced forwards. U, Umbilicus. 



