136 UMBILICAL HERNIA IN A MARE, 
26//i.—The pulse was 75; feces pultaceous, and the respiration 
quiet. No medicine. The diet, mashes, carrots, and hay, which 
she ate with avidity. 
From the last date to the 28th, the symptoms remained the same, 
but on the 29th the sutures sloughed away. Mr. Daws then re¬ 
moved a fractured portion of rib about one-and-a-half inch long; he 
also cut away several portions of gangrenpus muscle and cellular 
membrane. Three more sutures were inserted, but they sloughed 
away on the following day, owing to the vitality of the parts being 
destroyed by the severe contusion which she received from the shaft. 
30^4.—The wound now presents a healthy granulating surface, 
and very little doubt remains of her recovery. The pulse has 
nearly assumed a natural character. 
January 1840, A.M.—Symptoms of tetanus are begin¬ 
ning to shew themselves. The jaw is partially fixed; the tail 
erect; the ears and legs warm; the pulse 85; respiration 44. 
six A.M.—The jaw was completely fixed; the voluntary 
muscles rigid; the pulse small, feeble, and countless; the respira¬ 
tion laborious. At about ten A.M., she died. 
Post-mortem appearances .—There was fracture of the fifteenth 
rib about two-and-a-half or three inches from its cartilage. The 
soft parts surrounding the seat of injury were in a very healthy 
state. There was adhesion of the spleen to the peritoneum, and 
also a tumour in the mesentery, encircled by a fold of small intes¬ 
tine. ; but this was evidently of long standing. 
This case is sent not as illustrative of any new or extraordinary 
treatment, nor in acknowledgment of that which was erroneous 
or defective, for there was neither the one nor the other; but as an 
instance of the sad disappointment of our most sanguine hopes 
of success to which we are occasionally doomed. What are the 
circumstances which seem to favour the occurrence of tetanus ? 
AVhat are the symptoms] There were no premonitory symp¬ 
toms in the present case. The accelerated pulse had regained 
its natural standard, and the unhealthy state of the wound had 
quite disappeared. This is a subject which requires more consi¬ 
deration than has hitherto been paid to it. 
A CASE OF UMBILICAL HERNIA IN A MARE, WITH 
SLOUGHING OF THE INTESTINE. 
By Mr. F. KlNG,yw;i., Stamnore. 
A BROWN mare, four years old, was brought into my infirmary, 
in August last, wdth umbilical hernia. Llaving been successful in 
several cases by taking up the sac in folds and severely stimulat- 
