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removed. The wounds were closed with antiseptic ligatures, and 
antiseptic dressing carefully applied, and in less than two weeks 
the cicatrization was perfect and the animal reported as sound 
and well as ever .—Annates de Belgique 
DOUBLE INGUINAL HERNIA, ONE CHRONIC, THE OTHER ACUTE, 
IN A GELDING. 
By F. Hendriokx. 
The subject of this report was a gelding, three years old 
which presented a tumor in the left inguinal region, which had 
appeared shortly after the operation of castration, and had grad¬ 
ually increased in size. Its characters as shown in the inguinal 
region were well marked. It was of a somewhat regularly round 
form, soft and elastic, and comparatively readily reducible. The 
correctness of the diagnosis was verified by rectal examination 5 
which discovered the tumor through the inguinal ring, as a large 
soft, elongated mass, continuous with the intestines. The hernia 
was formed by a portion of the cord, and the omentum, adherent 
to the bottom of the sac, together with a portion of the small in¬ 
testines. The patient was prepared for operation by dieting, with 
the administration of a drench consisting of 1^ ounce of a mix¬ 
ture of 200 grammes, (or about 6 ounces) of tincture of arnica 
with 9 grammes of phenic acid crystals, and the operation pro¬ 
ceeded with by a careful dissection of the sac by a free incision, 
and the laceration with the fingers of the adhesions of the omen¬ 
tum, which, upon being liberated, returned into the abdomen. 
This was followed by the application of a clamp, close to the 
ring, as in the operation of castration with covered testicle. 
Nothing special occurred during the operation, except that the 
animal struggled very violently. 
On the second day following the operation the animal was 
taken with colics and hemorrhage, together with an alarming 
series of symptoms, which suggested the possibility of intestinal 
pinching between the jaws of the clamp, or an extra traction in 
the inguinal region, but careful examination failed to show any 
thing wrong in that direction. General treatment, according to 
