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the two tore fingers, and gradually drawn into the abdomen, after 
which a compress and bandage to be applied: this I imagine to 
be an excellent plan, and well worthy of trial. 
In some subjects the disease will never occur a second time, in 
others there are frequent relapses: when it comes on a second, 
oi, at all events, a third time, I would adopt castration, after 
which I never knew it to take place. 
Peritoneal inflammation is a very frequent attendant on hernia 
particularly when strangulation occurs; but as there is no pecu¬ 
liarity m the symptoms or treatment, it would be superfluous 
ioi me to trespass on your valuable pages by describing that which 
is quite familiar to even the most juvenile veterinarian: I will 
therefore conclude by warning the practitioner who may have a 
case of hernia, to be ever on the watch, and, in fact, to expect the 
approach of that inflammation which is so dreadful in its conse¬ 
quences, but which, through caution and attention, may be easily 
suppiessed by a prompt application of the ordinary means. 
PNEUMONIA, FOLLOWED BY PERITONITIS AND 
ASCITES. 
By Mr. William Percivall, M.R.C.S. 
[Read at the Veterinary Medical Society, Oct. 7th, 1829.] 
SOME author has made a remark which deserves to be trea¬ 
sured up in the mind (particularly in the mind of the medical 
man), since all knowledge is a compound of observation, investi¬ 
gation, and experience, — “ I wish every one would only write 
what he knows , and as much as he knows.” I wish every veteri- 
naiian would ; for then we should force on that slowest of growth 
of all branches of our art, the Practice of Medicine. 
It falls to my lot to present the veterinary community with 
another case, I would not say of rare , but, rather, of uncommon 
occurrence,—one of ascites. It makes the fifth, I think, in my 
own practice. J 
A five-year-old horse, 15 hands 1^ inch in height, short?' * 
round, and compact in form, and plump in condition, “ caught 
cold about the middle of last July. He got wet through on the 
occasion, and was in that state, while still out with his rider, 
seized with a shivering ; even then he was not brought home, but 
was kept walking about for upwards of an hour afterwards, and 
then walked a distance of two miles to the stable. The conse- 
