VENTRAL HERNIA IN A PONY. 
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mucous coat highly inflamed. The horse had eaten his 
usual allowance of grain and grass, and drank freely of 
water upon the morning of the attack, and also at midday ; 
and it was not until after his evening’s feed that he was 
observed to be unwell. He joined the troop on the 15th 
March, 1847, and was then registered as 6 years old. 
Are the melanotic tumours to be viewed as the remote, 
and the contraction of the vena cena and aorta as the proxi- 
mate, cause of the disease of the heart, in the present in- 
stance ? 
I should mention, perhaps, that the structure of the blood- 
vessels did not seem to be impaired, nor had any other 
portion of the circulatory system, besides that to which I 
have already alluded, any appearance of disease. 
CASE OE VENTRAL HERNIA IN A PONY. 
OPERATION. RECOVERY. 
By W. B. Taylor, M.R.C.V.S., South Anston. 
Having of late seen several successful cases of pene- 
trating abdominal w 7 ounds recorded in the Veterinarian , I 
have sent you the particulars of one that occurred in my 
practice, and which will tend to confirm Mr. Kettle’s state- 
ments respecting the little danger which occasionally attends 
wounds of this description. 
The subject was a brown mare pony, fourteen hands high, 
and about 18 years old, the property of — Atkinson, Esq., 
Atercliff. As she was a great favorite, she was sent to 
Anston for a run at grass, and on being turned out on the 
morning of the 1 Oth August, 1 854, was driven by another pony 
over a newly made fence, when the injury was inflicted. She 
was forthwith taken to a stable, and my attendance requested. 
On examination, I found a large hernial tumour about the 
size of a man’s head, situated near to the umbilicus, and a 
little on left side of the abdomen. A wound also of the 
common integuments existed about two inches long; through 
which the intestine could be distinctly seen. Notwithstand- 
ing this state of things, few symptoms of pain were present. 
On account of a messenger having to be despatched to the 
owner, an operation for the reduction of the hernia was 
deferred till 4 p.m., when I found, on repeating my visit, the 
patient giving evidence of abdominal pain by pawing occa- 
sionally. The pulse also w 7 as 60, and full to the feel. In 
