REPORTS OF CASES. 
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ing plenty of help she was carefully thrown and securely con¬ 
fined ; then after well washing the bowels with creolin solu¬ 
tion and using the trocar there was not as much difficulty in 
returning them as we had anticipated. Muscle tissue was 
sewed with interrupted stitches of heavy catgut, then well 
sprinkled with iodoform sugar and the skin sutured with wire. 
The mare was assisted to her feet, an antiseptic plaster contain¬ 
ing balsam and resin was applied over the wound, leaving a 
small opening, then covered with cotton and over all a well fit¬ 
ting body bandage, held in constant apposition with shoe elastic. 
Took animals under our immediate care. Colt was allowed to 
suckle three times a day ; mare was confined to a box-stall and 
after the same evening of accident never missed a feed ; wound 
was not dressed to exceed once in two days, and in sixteen days 
all bandages were removed, and to-day the only evidence of the 
accident (on the mare) is a slight longitudinal scar ; while the 
evidence on me is an unpaid account. 
Case II .—In order to get with its mother, a four-months- 
old colt attempted to jump a low, dull-pointed picket fence, and 
was found with front legs on one side of fence and hind legs on 
the other, with one picket up in the opening of prepuce or sheath. 
He was lifted off and ran to his dam, having apparently suffered 
no damage at all. 
Next morning the cul-de-sac of sheath was obliterated, and in 
its place was a fluctuating tumor much larger than a man’s head ; 
while the colt still showed no pain nor inconvenience and still 
suckled. We were called. While we could not find a single 
mark of external injury, we found that the picket that went 
into the sheath had ruptured the abdominal muscles just anter¬ 
ior to the pubis and a little to the right, without even scratch¬ 
ing the skin of prepuce. 
The abdominal opening was four inches in length, out of 
which came the intestines, gravitating between abdominal mus¬ 
cles and loose skin, to point of sheath, forming the apparent 
tumor. A wagon-bed was called into duty for operating table ; 
one end much higher than the other, and the colt carefully laid 
on it. We spent considerable time in our efforts to force the 
intestinal mass back from the point of sheath and through the 
abdominal opening, but failed. Having no chloroform, we now 
gave hydrate of chloral; securely tied the animal, and injected 
cocaine locally. The right hind leg was drawn well back and 
an incision large enough to admit the hand, was made through 
the skin, just over the abdominal opening and at side of penis. 
