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SCROTAL HERNIA WITH HYDROCELE. 
just in proportion to their work ; but they have the advan- 
tage of looking after their own property.* The practice of 
the natives, in and beyond the British territories, is to take 
every means in their power, by high keep, masaulahs, and 
clothing, to counteract the vicissitudes of the climate, when 
horses are exposed; and to avail themselves of stables in 
bad weather, when they can, and always when they want to 
get horses quickly fat for sale.f To judge fairly, the horses 
should be of the same kind, and make, and be sound, under the 
same previous and present management, and condition, 
stabled or exposed in the same climate, undergoing the same 
exertion as to rate, weight, and distance. In the absence of 
such information, principles must be referred to, and my 
observations amongst horses of every description, and under 
all circumstances, for upwards of twenty years, support what 
I have here endeavoured to explain of the principles I was 
taught. I saw no other way to prevent the Committee of 
Finance being led away by bare matter-of-facts. 
SCROTAL HERNIA WITH HYDROCELE. 
By W. Dorrofield, M.R.C.V.S., Rickmansworth. 
In the beginning of the month of June, a farmer in the 
neighbourhood requested me to look at a two-year- old entire 
colt, which he said was ruptured. In the course of a day or 
two I called to see the animal, and found him affected with 
scrotal hernia on the left side. On manipulation, the in- 
testine was readily returned, and as easily insinuated itself 
into the sac again immediately the pressure was removed. 
I told the owner, the case was one in which an operation 
might be attended with the best results ; at the sarfie time 
informing him of the amount of danger that would necessarily 
attend the operation. The owner said, he would consider the 
* The late Marquis of Wellesley, when Governor-General, said “ he would 
rather fight than pay them others have been of contrary opinion, so they are 
alternately subsidized and disbanded in every war, and the mares, on which they 
are mostly mounted, are therefore not used for breeding, and scarcity of horses 
for regular cavalry is the result. Irregular cavalry should be obliged to be 
breeders. What is to be done with these Cozaks ? is a problem the Indian 
statesman has to solve. Registration of their places of abode, when not in 
service, is most necessary. This is a better subject for the Military Committee 
of Finance. 
t The commandant of Skinner’s Irregular Cavalry, and his officers, used 
stables at Hansee. This expense, for they had many horses, they would not 
have incurred, had they considered the exposure their troopers’ horses were 
obliged to undergo most beneficial. 
