REPORTS OF CASES. 
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would take him to his farm (one mile distant), and doctor him 
limself, and this he did. 
The horse lived three days and nights, and I was told he 
lied without a struggle. They drove him at a trot all the 
way to the farm and put him in a large roomy shed, where 
tie staid until he died. After there a while he appeared bet¬ 
ter, ate nothing, but drank quite a number of buckets of 
water. 
I opened him within an hour after death ; the carcass had 
not been moved. I found a free portion of small intestine 
about a foot in length, slightly injected and contracted, and 
in my judgment it might have become normal if the horse 
had not been killed by dosing with everything the neighbors 
and the imagination of the owner suggested. 
I think the bowels had been released several days. There 
was no peritonitis. Now here was a case of hernia un¬ 
doubtedly partially strangulated for several days at least, and 
had reduced itself, and, what is strange to me, it had not ad¬ 
hered in scrotal sack, it being a chronic hernia. The inguinal 
ring was dilated. He died from the effects of a quart of oil, 
etc., being poured into his lungs by nostril. 
Case IV—Subject, six-year-old trotting stallion. In about 
a year before his last sickness I had been called several times 
to see him, but each time he appeared to be well by the time 
I reached him. They said he appeared to have colicky 
pains, roll over, paw and have intermissions of ease. 
The last time he was taken they sent for an authority, who 
claimed the horse only had colic. Next day, at noon, I was 
summoned, but when I saw the poor brute I refused to oper¬ 
ate, for it was plain he was under the anaesthesia of death. 
He died in an hour from the time I saw him. 
I found a small loop of small intestine inclosing one ball 
of dung imprisoned in the inguinal canal. No indication of 
chronic hernia. The very small knuckle of the loop distended 
with gas was outside of external ring. 
The report of these cases I trust may be of some benefit 
to some earnest practitioner who may profit by my experi- 
