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On the 3d and 4t.h, the animal is fed as usual, having been 
kept on low diet the 2d. The compressed parts are percep- 
tibly colder. 
On the 5th and 6th, is a slight tumefaction round the 
imprisoned tissues, associated with a little serous transudation 
through the skin. 
On the 7th, the serosity is more abundant, and besides, 
which, there is an oedematous swelling above the clams, 
especially on the left side. 
The 8th, the mass, bathed by a fetid and highly coloured 
serosity, is flaccid and much less tense ; it begins to separate 
from the clams anteriorly. The chloride of lime is used to 
disinfect, and as the depending parts are large and weighty, a 
linen suspensory is used to prevent traction on the cord. 
On the 10th of December, that is to say, eight days after 
the operation, one testicle is found on the litter. The other, 
with the remaining parts, has only a small attachment, and 
the slightest traction exerted on the clams separates them 
from the adjacent structures. A bandage is applied over the 
wound which is bathed several times daily with an emollient 
lotion. 
Suppuration began on the 12th, and on the 1 (3th, there was 
slight increase of swelling on the left side. 
Onthe9thof January the indolent tumefaction is diminished, 
but on close examination the cord is found to be indurated. 
M. Delwart cast the horse, and removed the thickening, after 
which troublesome hemorrhage supervened, although the 
cord had been tied. Firm compression, and the actual 
cautery, had to be used to suppress the bleeding. All went 
on more or less favorably tilT the 9th of February, when the 
horse, perfectly recovered, without vestige of hernia, was 
removed from the infirmary. 
Were Professor DelwarPs apprehensions respecting the 
probable issue of the common covered operation well founded ? 
It is unfortunately too true, though not generally observed in 
the horse, that the adhesive plug formed in the operation for 
hernia is not strong enough to support the gut, more especially 
if the opening is in a depending part. When practising at 
Thirsk, in Yorkshire, I was called upon by Mr. Bell’s game- 
keeper to attend a valuable young pointer with umbilical 
hernia. I resolved to perform a somewhat new operation, 
that is to say, to reduce the hernia, cut into the skin, and tie 
a strong ligature round the neck of the hernial sack, which in 
these cases is a prolongation of peritoneum with condensed 
areolar tissue around. Accordingly I did so, and to be more 
sure passed a metallic suture through the lips of the abdominal 
