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REPORTS OF CASES. 
the clamp alone would bring around the desired result. On cast¬ 
ing the patient, I discovered that instead of a single hernia I was 
confronted with a double hernia, therefore, operating on both 
sides, using the above described method. The stitches sloughed 
off the twelfth day and in six weeks the horse was put to work 
and today is as smooth as any gelding that was castrated at four 
years old. This operation was performed November 21, 1910. 
Case No. 2 was a one-year-old draft colt, had scrotal hernia 
on left side. Hernia was first noticed by owner when colt was one 
week old. When operated on the hernia tumor was as large as a 
two-quart bowl. The same method was used. The stitches 
sloughed off in five days and parts completely healed in six weeks. 
Case No. 3 was a trotting bred colt one year old, with um¬ 
bilical hernia. Tumor was about six inches in diameter, opening 
in abdominal wall about four inches long and two inches wide. 
Was operated on as above described. Did not see the colt again 
for three months and did not learn from the owner how long be¬ 
fore the hernia sack sloughed off, as he turned the colt to pasture 
the third day after the operation and did not see it for three 
weeks, and then the wound was nearly healed. 
Case No. 4 was a draft colt, seven months old, with umbilical 
hernia, with a tumor the size of a coffee cup. The owner said 
the colt would have colic pains and roll and said that he would 
press the bowel back and the colt would be all right. Operated 
on November 7, 1911, and hernia sloughed off November 19, and 
saw colt on November 20 and the wound was almost healed. 
The advantage of this method of operating, especially in um¬ 
bilical hernia, is that the patient can be turned on pasture without 
any fear of trouble. 
ECLAMPSIA IN THE MARE. 
By Frank T. Keneley, Twin Falls, Idaho. 
I may first state that before reading W. L. Williams’ Veteri¬ 
nary Obstetrics , I was unaware that we had an eclampsia in the 
mare. In this work the author says that so far as he knew the 
first description of this disease was a paper presented by himself 
before the Illinois Veterinary Medical Association, and which 
later appeared in the American Veterinary Review, Vol. 14, 
page 559. His description of several cases in which he was able 
to watch their course throughout gives a very broad account of 
this disease from a diagnostic point. 
