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TWO CASES OF INGUINAL HEilNIA. 
it SO as to pass up into the groin, and, having covered it with 
flannel and wool, it was bound tight on with soft bandages, so as 
to compress the ruptured part. 
In a short time the foal was able to get up and suck the mare. 
They were both kept in a loose box for a fortnight, when the tin 
and bandages were removed, and they were turned out to grass. 
The foal was perfectly cured, and is now promising to make a 
very valuable horse. 
The above case induced me to attempt a more certain method 
of treating hernia, by means of a spring truss, which I made and 
applied with success in the follov^^ing case. 
CASE II. 
This w^as a valuable colt, three months old, the property of 
Putsey Dawson, Esq., Sinnington Manor House, near Kirby- 
moorside. The hernia was first observed a few days after birth; 
but it increased considerably when the foal began to eat grass, 
and was now become so large as to give the animal pain on 
moving, after sucking or distending the bowels with food ; and it 
was still continuing to increase. 
I reduced the hernia by gentle pressure, without much diffi¬ 
culty, but found the rupture to be large enough to admit of four 
fingers being passed up ; and the moment the pressure of the 
hand was removed, the contents of the hernial sac returned. 
A truss was made of spring steel, and constructed in such a 
manner as to keep up a continual pressure over the ruptured 
part, leaving the scrotum, penis, &c. perfectly at liberty. It 
was applied on the 2d of August, and removed on September the 
4th, 1832, a complete cure having been performed. During this 
time the colt was kept in a loose box, and care was taken that 
he was not allowed too much food or water at a time, and that 
the truss was shortened or lengthened as seemed requisite. He 
was afterwards turned out to grass. Having to attend a horse 
at the same place, labouring under inflammation of the bowels, 
on November the 22d, I had the satisfaction to find the foal 
without a trace of its former complaint. 
After having treated many cases of this kind, I now feel confi¬ 
dence in the above method being a certain cure when early 
applied. 
We should be exceedingly obliged to Mr. Maw, and so, we 
are convinced, would the readers of our Journal, if he would 
favour us with an account (a drawing if he pleases) of the 
structure of this truss, its hearing points, and the mode of 
