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wall was about an inch in diameter. I suggested an opera¬ 
tion to the owner, but advised not to have it done, he, how- ; 
ever, insisted, and I operated with, I think, favorable results. : 
My line of operation was : I cast the animal; removed hair 
over injury, washed antiseptically ; made an incision over the 
opening about six inches long, through the skin and muscles / 
on to the sac; dissected this a little back on either side of the 
sac over the opening ; cut down on the sac, and removed it 
so as to bring the edges together; I scarified the edges of the 
opening in the wall; passed cat-gut sutures through the wall 
of the old wound, taking up the edges of the sac, sewing it 
together; in this way closing it up. I then sutured up the 
muscles and skin, leaving an opening at the bottom for drain- ij 
age, and the ends of the sutures of the inside wound, which I 
had left long, to also pass through. I then put on a large 
bandage with pad over site, which was kept on some time, i 
and the horse tied short to keep standing; fed on bran, mash i 
and gruel. I started for home in the morning, and left the 
patient in the hands of a medical friend who wrote to me 
December 6th, 1892, saying the wound had healed up, and > 
that he considered the rupture cured. One thing I was care- j 
ful about throughout the operation, and that was to do every- j 
thing strictly antiseptically. I never operated on a ventral j 
hernia before, and my object in reporting this case is for the 
younger members of this profession who, like myself, may 
hesitate in doing an operation of this kind. 
VARIOLA VACCINE. 
By J. MoBirney, D.V.M., Charles City, Iowa. 
Thinking the following may be of some moment to the 
readers of the Review I will present a brief history of an 
outbreak of true variola vaccinae among a herd in the county 
in which I reside. 
Dr. I. W. Smith, a family physician, informed me that he 
had been called upon to treat a very annoying sore on the 
wrist of a patient, adding that to all appearances the sore was 
a well-defined pock. It was larger than those usually result- 
