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are too much identified with the progress of the veterinary art to 
permit it permanently to suffer. A new and better order of things 
would soon be established; the education of the pupil would be 
more adequate to the importance of the profession ; and the Eng¬ 
lish veterinarian would cease to blush in the presence of his con¬ 
tinental brother. 
Quid sit piilchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—//or. 
A TREATISE ON INGUINAL HERNIiE IN THE 
HORSE AND OTHER MONODACTYLES. 
jBj/G irard, Director of the Royal Veterinary School at Alfort, 
AtOf pp. 145, with Lithographic Plates. Paris^ 1827. 
(Continued from page 298.) 
II.—OF ENTEROCELE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING 
CASTRATION. 
This second species of hernia, which I shall call the hernia of castration^ 
is commonly produced by the violent struggles of the animal during the 
operation, or in the act of rising, and is essentially similar in its effects to 
the one above described. 
III.—OF CHRONIC ENTEROCELE. 
This hernia, which owes its production to the dilatation of the vaginal 
sheath of the testicle, combined with the relaxation of the fibrous tissue 
surrounding^the ring, is mostly at first intermittent, i. e. it disappears during 
repose, and returns under exercise or exertion; which variable condition 
lasts until such a descent takes place as renders the tumour, from its weight, 
incapable of yielding to the retraction of the surrounding parts: its aug¬ 
mentation then goes on until the accumulated matters within the gut pro¬ 
duce obstruction, and that is followed by strangulation. These changes are 
not sudden; on the contrary, they proceed rather slowly, and accumulation 
and obstruction always precede strangulation. While the accumulation is 
going on, we observe loathing of food, dullness, indisposition to move: as 
the engorgement increases it is denoted by loss of appetite, constipation, 
borborygma, and cholic. Strangulation adds virulence to these symp¬ 
toms, occasioning the most inordinate movements, and probably ends as in 
a recent hernia. Gangrene, at length, supervenes, succeeded by sudden 
cessation of pain, the too certain precursor of dissolution. 
