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CASE OF OPERATION FOR SCROTAL ENTEROCELE. 
By Thos. Twiston Davies, M.R.C.V.S. 
The subject of this case was a two-year old stallion having an 
enormous congenital reducible enterocele. The scrotum was dis- 
tended to the size of a man’s head, or rather larger. On the 5th of 
last month I commenced preparing him for the operation, by re- 
stricting his diet to green meat and bran mashes, and, having by 
this means superinduced a lax state of the bowels, on the 7th I had 
him cast for the operation, having kept him for the previous four- 
teen hours without any food. The operation, a testicule couvert, 
was performed successfully on the left testicle ; but, upon very 
minute examination, T found that the other had not descended 
within the scrotum, and, consequently, I was obliged to release him, 
deeming it prudent to defer any further operation until the other 
testicle had descended, which I expected it to do in the next spring. 
All went on favourably until the 22d, when I first observed a slight 
stiffness in the off hind leg, and a slightly painful enlargement of 
the scrotum, principally on the right side. The enlargement and 
tenderness continued to increase daily ; and, fearing strangulation 
might take place, I reduced the hernia by the taxis. No symptom 
of strangulation supervening, the scrotum appearing tense, shining, 
and exuding a serous fluid, and his pulse being 60, 1 concluded it to 
be erysipelas of the scrotum, for which I treated him by bleeding, 
cold lotion to the scrotum, and the exhibition of the following balls 
night and morning : R. aloes BB ^iss, ant. tart. 3j, hyd. chlorid. 3j, 
ol. palmee q. s., ut fiat bolus. On the 26th, I fancied a slight im- 
provement : however, on the 29th at 9 o’clock P.M., abdominal 
pains suddenly came on, which I attributed to the effect of the balls. 
By 3 o'clock A.M. 30th, all hope had fled, and he died in two hours 
afterwards. 
Post-mortem, appearances . — On opening the scrotum, about 
three quarts of serum flowed out, having a layer of pus from the sur- 
face of the peritoneum. Intense inflammation in the peritoneum, 
with a large patch of mortification, including the tunica vaginalis, 
testis, and dartos muscle of the right side of the scrotum. Inflam- 
mation in the peritoneum of the abdomen, with patches of inflam- 
mation in the stomach and intestines. The other viscera were 
healthy. Intestines within abdomen. 
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