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ist. Preparation of the animal. 
2d. “ “ “ operating- room. 
3d. “ “ “ instruments. 
4th. “ “ “ surgeon. 
By strict adherence of the surgeon to aseptic principles, 
his painstaking and labor will not be in vain, for I cannot im¬ 
press too deeply that the secret of success is in proportion to 
the extent of our hygienic conditions and surroundings. 
CLINICAL DEPARTMENT. 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner , but his skill dies with him. By 
recording Ms observations he adds to the knowledge of Ids profession , and as¬ 
sists by his facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science .''' 1 — Vet¬ 
erinary Record. 
OMENTUM HERNIA IN A YEARLING COLT. 
By J. S. Ctjlbbrt, V.S., Portland, Ind. 
I was called on May 4th to see a yearling colt which had 
been castrated on May 3d. When I arrived at the farm I 
found the colt in a lot walking around very uneasily, with the 
omentum protruding through the cut in the scrotum on the 
off side; it hung down so far that it touched the ground as 
he walked. I found the pulse increased to 85 ; tempera¬ 
ture I02§° ; respirations accelerated ; colt in rather a stupid 
condition. The first thing done after my examination was to 
cast the colt; the omentum was one mass of coagulated blood 
and serum. I examined the scrotum bv introducing: my fin- 
ger up into the inguinal canal and into the opening in the 
peritoneum. Line of treatment: I took an ecraseur and sev¬ 
ered the protruded omentum as close to the scrotum as pos¬ 
sible ; then I washed and cleansed the parts well with a bi¬ 
chloride solution, one to five hundred; then I crowded 
omentum back into abdominal cavity; then a plug of oakum, 
well saturated with the bi-chloride solution, was crowded 
up into the canal against the opening in the peritoneum and 
left there for twenty-four hours ; then took it out. 1 gave it 
bran mashes and enemas of warm water two and three times 
