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the owner applied compresses and truss, but on their removal the 
tumor seemed to increase in size. The horse was brought to me, 
and I diagnosed the case as one of ventral hernia, which I found 
was easily reducable, and also that it lay under a thick portion of 
the panniculus. 
The owner requested me to operate on the hernia, which I 
did May 11th. The horse was cast on his left side, and the oper¬ 
ation was performed without the use of a twitch or anaesthesia. 
The rent that gave rise to the hernia was nearly vertical; conse¬ 
quently I made a vertical incision through the skin, about three 
inches long, just forward of the rent. I then dissected the skin 
from the panniculus, about two inches posterior to the rent; then 
incising the panniculus, a portion was dissected back from over 
the hernia; this exposed the rent. I replaced the protruding 
bowel with the middle finger, and took three sutures with catgut, 
which closed a rent nearly one and a-half inches in length. I 
could easily feel the balls of fcecal matter in the bowel, and in 
applying the sutures I took pains not to injure the peritoneum, 
but get a firm hold in the edges of the tunica abdominalis. The 
pannicula was then brought together with catgut sutures, and 
then the skin was brought over the whole and sutured with silk. 
A felt compress was then placed on the wound, so as to allow 
the pus to escape, and was held in place by an elastic truss. The 
animal was allowed to get up, and was placed in a roomy box. 
The first week he was kept on a scanty and laxative diet. There 
were no complications ; the wound suppurated well, was washed 
daily with a weak solution of phenic acid, and at the end of five 
weeks the wound had entirely healed, with no appearance of the 
hernia. The horse now takes light exercise in the harness. 
LIPOMA ON THE CHEST. 
Case No, 3.—A bay gelding, ten years old, was brought to 
me, with a large tumor just back of the ulna, on the left side of 
the thorax. 
The owner gave the following history: When the animal 
was two years old he noticed a small bunch back of the ulna, and 
this bunch had gradually grown until it was about as large as a 
man’s head. 
