REPORTS OF CASES. 
829 
resulted in death in a few days. The others were killed to end 
their sufferings. 
Cow No. 3, you will notice, showed nearly 14 months after 
cow No. 1. Cow No. 3 had a better developed case than either 
Nos. 1 or 2. The horses all had well developed cases. The 
boy was sent to Chicago and received the Pasteur treatment. 
CASTRATION OF A COLT WITH A SCROTAL HERNIA. 
By Wilhelm Schumacher, M. D. V., Stevens’ Point, Wis. 
The subject, a yearling colt, presented a unilateral hernia 
about the size of an infant’s head, which had been noticed since 
birth. The colt had been treated by the local blacksmith, who 
had made a truss of leather and iron, which did not fit well and 
caused swelling, abrasions, and would not stay on. A quack, 
pretending to be the State veterinarian, applied some rattlesnake 
oil (for which he charged $2 per ounce), apparently a blister, 
without success. . The owner after this experience was willing 
to submit the animal to a radical treatment; so the colt was 
cast, rolled on its back into a hole and banked with earth so 
that the hind part was elevated about a foot. The scrotum and 
neighborhood was then washed with a hot ro per cent, solution 
of lye, then with water, and finally with wood alcohol. After 
dividing the skin it was found that the tunic adhered to the 
skin and had to be dissected away for about six inches. The 
external ring proved to be wide enough so the hand could pass 
in, allowing an easy reduction of the hernia. Passing a string 
around the sac and testicle it was drawn up as far as possible^ 
and a clamp 10 cm. long applied as high as it could be placed’ 
but before closing the clamp the sac was turned once around its 
axis. The clamp and its groove had been painted with biniodide 
of mercury in gum arabic, and then dried. A pair of open ex- 
tracters serving as clamp forceps. The whole wound was then 
rinsed with a 1:500 bichloride solution, tamponed with oakum 
soaked in the same solution. The external wound, about 7 
inches long, closed with two stitches and the animal allowed to 
get up. The stitches and tampon were taken out after three 
days and the scrotum ordered to be washed once daily with a 
hot creolin solution until the clamp would fall off, instructing 
the attendant to pull gently on the string hanging from the 
clamp. Three weeks later the owner sent word that the wound 
had almost healed up, but that the clamp had not come off. 
On arrival I found the colt in fine condition, and the clamp 
could be felt through the skin. The skin was thoroughly 
