OBITUARY. 
575 
Will you be kind enough to advise me by letter, after care¬ 
fully examining the food sent, if you think the grain that was 
fed for weeks previous to sickness was cause enough for this 
disorder. Please send bill for services, and I will cheerfully 
remit you. An opinion from one standing as high as you will 
give general satisfaction to stock men in that vicinity. 
VENTRAL HERNIA. 
By G. Hess, M.D., D.V.S. 
On October 9th I was called to treat a colt about five 
months old that had, the night previous, received an injury in 
the right hypochondriac. The wound was produced by the 
horn of a cow, and extended through the abdominal walls 
into the cavity, from which protruded a fold of peritoneum 
more than two feet in length. From the strangulated condi¬ 
tion of the protruding mass we decided to excise it, and did 
so after applying a carbolized gut ligature close to the abdom¬ 
inal parietes. 
After cleansing the proximal end we returned it into the 
abdominal cavity and sewed up the wound in the skin and 
subjacent muscles with gut sutures. The wound healed 
rapidly and the animal never refused a single feed nor in any 
way seemed to suffer, except a slight soreness, from the loss of 
so great a portion of peritoneum, which when extended was 
fully eight square feet in extent. 
OBITUARY. 
DR. JEAN MATHIAS WEHENKEL. 
We have received the sad news of the death of Dr. We- 
henkel, Director of the Veterinary School of Brussels, which 
took place on the 17th of January, at the age of fifty years. 
As a Doctor of Medicine he was held in high esteem, and his 
name was familiar to all interested in medical and veterinary 
literature, to both of which he was a liberal contributor. A 
member of numerous scientific societies, he wore the decora¬ 
tions of several orders, and was an Honorary Fellow of the 
