214 OPERATION FOR STRANGULATED VENTRAL HERNIA. 
can be accompanied with when the thoracic viscera are the 
organs affected. 
The case is as follows : A bay mare, twelve years old, slipped 
and fell on her near side, bruising the haunch over the abduc- 
tor muscles. She was not lamed by the accident, but a spot 
somewhat larger than a man’s hand was observed to be wet 
from continuous perspiration for two days subsequently to the 
occurrence of the injury, after which the part became dry and 
commenced to swell. The animal being very vicious, fomen- 
tations could not be employed. The swelling gradually 
increased, and in four days was of great size, but quite soft 
to the feel. I made a small puncture, to ascertain the nature 
of the contents of the swelling, and afterwards dilated the 
opening, when about three pints of serum escaped, and with 
it a large clot of coagulated fibrin, which had been floating 
in the serous fluid. The coagulum was free from coloring 
matter, and weighed about four ounces. I ordered fomenta- 
tions to be applied, and which was done as well as the vicious 
nature of the mare would allow 7 of. Healthy suppuration 
has now commenced, and by keeping the parts clean a speedy 
and favorable termination may be early expected. 
Hounslow Barracks; March 10, 1855. 
OPERATION FOR STRANGULATED VENTRAL 
HERNIA IN A HORSE. 
By John Storry, Pickering. 
As a subscriber to the Veterinarian from its commence- 
ment, and an occasional contributor to its pages, I send you 
the following case of successful operation for ventral hernia, 
as I do not remember a similar one being published in your 
Journal.* The subject was a valuable horse, aged five 
years, the property of Mr. William Frank, of this place. 
About eighteen months before the time I was called to attend 
him, the animal, while at pasture, was gored by a cow, the 
result of which w 7 as a laceration of the abdominal muscles 
on the left side, near to the flank, through which the intes- 
tines protruded into a sac formed by the skin, constituting 
* The pages of the ‘ Veterinarian ? are rich in cases of hernia of every 
variety. In the twelfth volume, in particular, Mr. Storry will find full 
details of successful operations for very formidable cases of ventral and 
other lands of hernia. 
