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REPORTS OF CASES. 
any member of the profession has ever seen a case of inguinal 
hernia in a gelding, strangulated or otherwise. 
As I have not only seen, but successfully treated both, I 
will give a sketch of two cases, as per note taken at the time 
of the operation. 
On the 29th day of August, 1887, I was called by telegram 
to see a bay gelding six years old. 
On my arrival I found the horse lying on his right side 
groaning or grunting loudly at every breath. Pulse not 
much altered. Temperature normal, in consequence of 
which I looked for local trouble of the left scrotum. 
The owner, Mr. Graham, said the horse had been castrated 
five years previous; however, I got the horse up and made 
an examination per rectum with my right hand and arm, when 
I could distinctly feel the imprisoned bowel, but was unable 
to remove it by manipulations and taxis. The animal grew 
worse, and soon began throwing himself about violently for 
perhaps an hour, during which time I was trying to persuade 
Mr. G. to allow me to operate by incision, to which he finally 
consented ; by this time about four or five feet of the intestine 
had come down and the tunica vaginalis had become ruptured 
anteriorly, so that the bowel lay down along the sheath. 
Leading the animal to a hillside near by, he soon lay down, 
when 1 secured him with ropes; placing him with his head 
down hill, I made a free incision through the scrotum, and 
with a probe-pointed bistoury enlarged the inguinal ring, after 
which I had but little trouble in returning the bowel. I 
dressed the wound with iodoform, then filled the crural and 
whole space that had been occupied by the bowels with cot¬ 
ton batting, pressing it well up against the abdominal wall, 
then placed four sutures through the skin to hold the cotton 
in place, and let the animal up. He walked to the water tank, 
took a drink, then trotted into the stable of his own accord. 
On the fourth day the sutures were removed and the cotton 
dropped out, the wound healed by granulation, since which 
time the animal has enjoyed apparently good health, being 
smooth and free from hernia. 
Case No. 2.—Iron gray gelding, three years old, the prop- 
