282 PROGRESS OP VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 
extent of surface, ensuring death and shrivelling of the 
testicles, without sloughing, as evidently occurred in M. 
Delwart’s case ; for we are told that on the 10th of December 
one testicle was found on the litter. 
Some persons might be inclined at first sight to condemn 
this operation as “ unscientific” and “ barbarous.” As a 
method of castration we unhesitatingly discard it, but as a 
plan to be adopted in exceptional cases, it behoves us to 
consider before we unconditionally condemn it. I cannot 
see that it is any worse than clamming the integument over 
an umbilical hernia, a practice even with the best human 
surgeons, but which I trust will ere long be superseded by 
something better. 
A plan that seems to deserve greater consideration than 
Professor Delwart’s, is one adopted by Mr. Marshall, of 
Dungannon.* Mr. Marshall operated, a testicule convert , on 
the affected side, the other testicle being removed in the 
ordinary way. He then inserted two strong metallic sutures 
above the clam, as close to the abdomen as possible. u The 
clam on the left side remained on until it sloughed off ; the 
metallic sutures were not removed for a considerable time 
after.” The late lamented editor of the Veterinarian justly 
commended Mr. Marshall’s practice by stating that the case 
was “ very interesting,” and had been “ judiciously managed.” 
Strangulated Inguinal Hernia reduced by the 
Rectum ; Cure. — This case occurred under MM. Andre, of 
Court Saint Etienne, and Leconturier, of Walhain Saint Paul. 
A cart-horse stallion, ten years old, the property of a Belgian 
farmer, was taken with colicky pains about ten o’clock in the 
evening of the 23d of July, 1854. M. Andre was called to 
the horse directly, and he saw him three hours after the 
signs of discomfort had appeared. He found him pawing, 
rising and lying down, with the pulse almost normal, 
no appetite, and constipation without distension of the 
abdomen ; the left scrotal cavity is more voluminous than the 
right, and contains fluid amidst which the free testicle is to be 
felt of normal size. This is simply chronic hydrocele, and 
M. Andre diagnosed the case as one of impaction of the 
large intestines, or of a stercoral stoppage; he treated the 
case accordingly. But about four in the morning, the pains 
kept increasing, and Lecouturier is consulted by Andre. 
The pulse is sharp, wiry, and at 65 ; otherwise the same 
symptoms persist as yesterday. The diagnosis was always 
doubtful till Lecouturier suggested the physical exploration 
* See the c Veterinarian’ for 1854, p. 84. 
