A TREATISE ON INGUINAL HERSUE*, 251 
On the evening of the 21st of June they'assembled in 
their old place of meeting, and re-fonned themselves into 
the Veterinary Medical Society, in which they are resolved 
that party spirit shall never find a place; and which shall be ho¬ 
nestly devoted to the pursuit of science, the improvement of 
their art, and the promotion of friendly intercourse. 
This meeting was adjourned to Wednesday the 25th of June, 
more fully to consider the laws and regulations which, under 
the present circumstances of their profession, may be necessary; 
and to receive the names of those gentlemen who attended the 
meeting of the 10th of June, or of any of their brethren who enter 
cordially into their views, and are desirous to unite with them in 
maintaining the respectability, and effecting the best interests, 
of their profession. 
We make no comment on this simple detail of facts. It 
speaks sufficiently for itself. 
‘‘ Let me suppose you have surmounted the teasing employments of 
printing and publishing, how will you be able to lull the critics; who, like 
Cerberus, are posted at the avenues of literature, and who settle the 
merits of every new performance ?”— Goldsmith, 
A TREATISE ON INGUINAL HERNIA IN THE 
HORSE AND OTHER MONODACTYLES. 
By Giraed, Director of the Royal Veterinary School at 
Alfort, 4to, pp. 145, with Lithographic Plates. Paris,1827. 
HERNIA is the technical appellation for that which in com¬ 
mon colloquy we call rupture,’’ and consists in the escape or 
displacement of some viscus, commonly intestine, from the ca\ity 
of the belly, most frequently either into the groin, or through 
the gi’oin into the scrotum; hence the common epithet inguinaL 
There are, howevei’, as we shall hereafter point out, other situa¬ 
tions in which such prolapsus may occur. In Great Britain 
and Ireland, hernia is rare in its occurrence, compared with the 
accounts we have of its prevalence among the horses of other 
countries, as-Finnce, Germany, India, Arabia, &c.; a fact that 
serves not only to throw a light on its pathology, but one that 
