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REPORTS OF CASES. 
into the tumor and take a stitch or two to hold it in. This 
will penetrate into the tissues from a half to an inch deep, into 
a small or young* tumor. For a large, hard, woody, old tumor, I 
would advise a stronger solution of the acid. In about six or 
seven days this will detach the healthy from cauterized portion 
and leave a clean, healthy, granulating wound, which will heal 
readily, with but little care and remedies, and leave little or no 
cicatrix. Some care and judgment must be used in the 
strength of this solution, or it may cauterize more deeply than 
desired in regions of the gullet, trachea and jugular vein 
Openings into these organs might prove troublesome or serious. 
I should like, if any doctor tries this remedy, that he inform 
me of his success. I would also advise you to try Dr. Detmers’ 
remedy. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
‘ ‘ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner , hit his skill dies with him. By re¬ 
cording Ins observations, he adds to the knowledge of his profession, and assists by his 'facts 
in building up the solid edifice of pathological science . ” 
ABDOMINAL, SURGERY IN THE SOEIPED IN ITS PRACTICAL 
APPLICATION. 
By Wm, H. Gribbre, D. V. S., Washington C. H., Ohio. 
Many thanks for Drs. Merillat’s articles on abdominal surg¬ 
ery, and will record two cases occurring in my own practice. 
Case I .—A medium-sized eight-year-old mare suckling a 
four-months-old colt was grazing on the roadside, and a door- 
yard gate being open, of course the colt had to prospect while 
the mare took the short cut, jumping the picket fence. The 
pickets directly under the mare broke off, but one at the side 
cut an opening about seven inches long through the skin and 
abdominal muscles, followed immediately by a large intes¬ 
tinal hernia. The opening was some twelve inches posterior to 
the sternum and equal distance from the linea alba. A lady who 
saw the accident had sufficient thought to immediately take a 
bed sheet and with help fasten it about the mare. On my ar¬ 
rival we found the hernia so large and the protruding bowels so 
full of gas and congested from constriction of the wound, that 
we confess to some nervousness. 
Giving the mare one ounce of chloral hydrate and secur- 
