reports of cases. 
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left hock, so an assistant could roll him in any position that it 
might be necessary to have him. I then took a two bushel 
gram -sack and placed in it a sponge that I had saturated in two 
ounces of chloroform, then drew the sack over the horse’s head, 
holding it close around his head. In one moment he was 
thoroughly under the anaesthetic. 
I gave an assistant the sack, and told him when the horse 
began to wink, to pull the sack over his nose for a short time. 
I then took my hook knife and made an incision about twelve 
inches long over the hernia, just cutting through the integument, 
and with my finger I broke down a small quantity of cellular 
tissue, coming onto the pelvic flexure of the great colon, which 
I returned. I then returned a number of feet of the small bowels 
and the floating colon. 
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I saw I had a rupture of the abdominal muscles and tunic, 
commencing within about two inches of the linea alba and ex¬ 
tending about half way to the transverse processes of the lumbar 
vertebrae. Using a catgut suture, commencing at the inferior part 
of the wound I stitched it over and over, taking good, deep 
stitches about three-quarters of an inch apart, using iodoform 
freely. I then sutured the integument with interrupted sutures 
and washed it with a solution of creolin, dusting it with boracic 
acid. 
I left the hobbles on until he was entirely out from under the 
influence of the anaesthetic ; then let him up and placed him in 
a box stall, tying him so he could not lie down. The first 
twelve hours did not allow him any feed, but some water. 
Next morning found horse pawing for feed ; quite badly 
swollen ; pulse 52, temperature 101°. Removed the two inferior 
stitches in the integument, allowing about a pint of serous fluid 
to escape. Took my injection pump, and daily washed it out 
with a solution of creolin. The first twelve days the pulse varied 
from 48 to 60, and the temperature from iooj^ to 102°. His 
daily feed was eight quarts scalded oats and four quarts, of bran. 
At the end of twelve days began to feed some hay, and at the 
expiration of twenty-five days he was doing his regular driving. 
