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A NKVV METHOD OF REDUCING HERNIA. 
charge of pus from the birth. On the transparent cornea, near 
the inner canthus, there is a perfect skin with black hair on it 
(the colour of the body of the animal), and adhering to the scle¬ 
rotica : it is about the size of a silver fourpenny piece; it does 
not obscure vision, as the pupil is clear*. 
P.S.—If memory serves me correctly, I think your valuable 
correspondent “ Nimrod,’’ in some back number of The V eteri- 
N A RIAN, has promised to record a case of a horse that died from 
fat. I have been waiting to see it, as I have, most probably, a 
similar one to communicate. The subject of my case was the 
fattest horse I ever saw. 
A NEW METHOD OF REDUCING HERNIA. 
Bj/ Mr, Horsburgh, Castleton, N.B. 
In presenting the readers of The Veterinarian with the 
following case, 1 will not flatter myself that I am giving the pro¬ 
fession any thing new. Cases of the same kind may have been 
treated in a manner nearly similar, and with similar effect. How¬ 
ever, as this is the first case that I have had an opportunity of 
thus treating, I send it in the hope that somemembers of the pro¬ 
fession, under whose notice this may come, may have cases on 
which they may try the same experiment; and I shall be most 
happy, through the pages of The Veterinarian, to hear the 
result. 
In July 1835, a grey horse, the property of Mr. Laing, farmer, 
of Pardivine, in breaking out of a park, staked himself on the 
fence, and was with some difficulty got off. He was much hurt 
—fever took place on the third day; on the fourth day I was 
called to attend him. 
The whole abdomen was much swelled, and also the integument- 
al and cellular investment of the chest, to the point of the ster¬ 
num. I took the usual mode of reducing the fever, by bleeding, 
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^ There was a lamb in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 
about a twelvemonth ago, that had a little tuft of hair growing on the centre 
of the transparent cornea. It about half covered the pupil, impairing, but 
not destroying the sight of that eye. It was a source of great annoyance 
to the animal, and there was a constant discharge of mingled watery and se- 
bacious matter from the eye. Had it not been for the singularity of the 
case, 1 would have endeavoured to have dissected from the cornea the skin 
on which the hair was embedded. This poor animal gradually wasted away, 
and died tabid. I do not, however, believe that this was to be attributed to 
the irritation produced by the tuft of hair.—Y. 
