REPORTS OF CASES. 
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erty of Mr. Benjamin Van Raalte, of Holland City, Michi¬ 
gan. I was called to see this horse, April 14th, ’90, found a 
large hernia on the right side, the size of a man’s head, and a 
smaller one on the left side ; the animal was in prime condition 
aside from the deformity caused by the hernia, which seemed 
to cause him no inconvenience; “ but he is worthless,” said 
Mr. Van Raalte, “ unless the rupture can be cured. ” 
I took two pieces of dry oak wood, seven inches long by 
one inch square, 
beveled the inner 
edges and bored 
a quarter inch 
hole in each end 
for bolts as shown 
by the accom¬ 
panying engraving. I laid the horse on the left side and 
carefully returned the bowels, then I applied the clamp around 
the old spermatic cord, clamping in all the loose tissue that I 
could handily, placing the clamp well up in groin or crural, 
tightening the bolts just enough to prevent the clamp from 
moving and let the horse up. Four days later I tightened 
the bolts a little, and in two more days I turned the burs as 
much as I could ; the clamp sloughed off ten days later and 
in two weeks the animal was well. I then laid him down and 
operated on the other side in a like manner. The animal has 
since recovered, and 1 have operated on a goodly number of 
stallions for scrotal hernia by dissecting out the tunica vagi¬ 
nalis and placing a clamp well up against the abdominal wall, 
and allowing it to slough off. 
June 23d, ’91. I was called to Way land, Michigan, to see 
a three-year-old gelding with inguinal hernia. The bowel 
protruding from both sides to an enormous size. The ani¬ 
mal, although sixteen hands high, rangy trud, with plenty of 
bone, muscle, and action, was bought for $30, showing that he 
was comparatively useless in his then unsightly condition. 
1 operated on him, using the bolted clamp as already de¬ 
scribed, except that I operated both sides at the same time, but 
1 have not heard from him since the operation. However, I 
