A CASE OF STRANGULATED HERNIA. 
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The perpetrators, however, of the above villainous deed 
have not to this day been discovered. — Rec . de Med. Vet. 
Juillet , 1853. 
A CASE OE STRANGULATED HERNIA, 
IN WHICH, DURING REDUCTION, THE COLON BECAME 
PERFORATED RECOVERY. 
By M. H. Verrier, V.S. at Brovins. 
[Seine et Marne,) 
The case I am going to relate furnishes a remarkable ex- 
ample of laceration of the colon, in the act of reduction of 
hernia, without its being followed by such complexities as 
might under the circumstances be anticipated. 
On the 27th of September, 1850, M. Setung, farmer at 
Filles-Dieu, a hamlet of Provins, came to ask me to come to 
his house to see a horse that had been three hours seized 
with the “ gripes.” He informed me that the horse did not 
appear so ill when he was walking about as when he was at 
rest, for then he would sink down upon the ground, and for 
preference place himself upon his back, as though that po- 
sition afforded him relief. From this account it struck me 
the animal must have an inguinal hernia. 
In this conjecture I was confirmed by an immediate exa- 
mination, in which I found in the region of the testicle a firm 
tumour on the left side, whose nature admitted of no doubt. 
The horse was at the time in a state of gloominess and de- 
pression, having his eyes closed in part, and mournful, with 
the conjunctiva much injected : pulse double and quick, but 
not hard ; respiration tremulous, irregular, and a little 
accelerated ; unable to stand long, and preferring when down 
to lie upon his back. 
The tumour on the left side of the scrotum was about the 
magnitude of a double fist, deeply lodged in the groin, very 
painful while being explored with the fingers, and presenting 
along its middle a groove, distinct though shallow, separating 
the tumour (superficially) into two lobes; an inferior one, 
formed by the testicle ; the other, superior, consisting of the 
prominence of the imprisoned pus. (This bilobular aspect 
is to me a very significant characteristic of hernial tumour.) 
I would have, by exploration per rectum , had further con- 
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