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bandage applied, having the digital ends tied over the hack. 
Rather profuse suppuration from the drainage opening in the 
skin occurred for four weeks. The external stitches were re¬ 
moved and the fistulous opening cleansed with antiseptics daily 
for 5 to 6 weeks. Then the mare was given the run of a large 
pasture paddock. In about 3 months after this the mare was 
spayed through the vagina. At the time of spaying' I could feel 
no adhesions between the intestines or between the intestines 
and abdominal wall. There remained a small fistulous opening 
BEFORE 
(6 to 8 inches in front of the place where the hernial opening 
had been stitched) for two and one-half years. About two years 
ajfter the operation two or three fistulous openings appeared 
directly over the deep stitches, and April 18, 1912, I cut down 
on the place where the old hernial opening was located and re¬ 
moved the No. 19 silk thread sutures. This place soon healed. 
A long fistulous track ran back toward the mammary glands; 
yet the glands were not involved. 
On May 7, 1912, the mare was destroyed, and the scar at 
the hernia was found to be firm, strong and very solid. The 
connective tissue fibres ran'obliquely across the old opening, and 
