THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXXV. 
No. 411. 
MARCH, 1862 . 
Fourth Series. 
No. 87. 
Communications and Cases. 
STRANGULATED HERNIA.—PARALYSIS OF THE 
PENIS. — IMPACTED OESOPHAGUS. — EPIS- 
TAXIS FOLLOWING THE USE OF THE TRE¬ 
PHINE. — NECESSITY OF DRAINAGE IN CA¬ 
VALRY STABLES.—TREATMENT OF CANKER 
WITH “ PLASTIQTJE.”—DISEASES OF CATTLE 
IN INDIA. 
By J. R. Hoey, M.R.C.V.S., 
Y.S. Her Majesty’s 3rd Brigade Horse Artillery, India. 
!: [Continuedfrom p. 9.) 
On looking through an old case-book, over a period of six 
years only, I find registered twenty-one cases of strangulated 
scrotal hernia. 
In this country cases of this kind are not uncommon, and 
during a period of twenty-one years in India, I have had a 
great many of them ; but from being removed from regiment 
to regiment, in accordance with the exigencies of the service, 
which, I consider to be detrimental to the interests thereof, 
I have no record showing the whole number of cases in which 
I have operated, with the results. I give, however, a period 
of six years, with twenty-one cases operated on. 
Twenty of these were troopers, and one an officer's charger. 
In the very great majority of these cases, the hernia was 
reduced by opening the scrotum, dilating the stricture, and the 
gut being returned, it was followed by immediate castration on 
that side. In all there were only four deaths, and in one of 
them the animal had been suffering so long, that death 
ensued without my having a chance of operating successfully. 
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