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hey may and do feel considerable interest in the welfare of our 
■rofession. Towards them we have a duty to discharge, and we 
.ave endeavoured to discharge it. By the kindness of our 
riends, we have been enabled to present them with a series of 
assays and cases on the most interesting parts of veterinary 
jractice ; and our arrangements enable us to promise, that these 
aapers will considerably increase both in number and value. W e 
icknowledge this to be the most important part of our work ; and 
nterest and inclination will lead us, in future, to attend less to 
sontroversy, and more to the accumulation of useful lacts. 
IXebtcto. 
Quid sit inilclirum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid mm. Hill 
A TREATISE ON INGUINAL HERNIiE IN THE 
HORSE AND OTHER MONODACTYLES. 
Girard, Director of the Royal Veterinary School at Alfort. 
4to, pp. 14-5, with Lithographic Flutes. Pans, lhU7. 
[Concluded fromvol. i, p. 421.] 
OPERATION FOR CHRONIC ENTEROCELE IN GELDINGS. 
RARELY as inguinal hernia makes its appearance in geldings, 
of which the veterinary annals of our own country anoid amp e 
proof, still, as there are cases of it on record, a circumstance 
which shows that it is neither an impossible occurrence, nor one 
that may not recur to us (and, perhaps, at an unexpected mo¬ 
ment),—it becomes a duty with us to possess ourselves ot tlic 
information required to treat such an accident. 
The ablation of the testicle is followed by the enlargement ol 
the extremity of the chord, and its cohesion with the scrotum, 
down to which detruncated part the inguinal canal continues, and 
ever after remains open, preserving its original diameter, and 
there terminates in a cul-de-sac . By degrees, in the course ot 
time, the enlargement subsides; the chord itseli shrinks; and its 
