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10. Always avoid the introduction of fingers and hand 
into a surgical wound unnecessarily. 
11. Always arrest all haemorrhage before stitching a wound 
or applying a surgical dressing to it. 
12. Always sterilize your sponges and dressings before 
applying them to a surgical wound. 
13. Always ligate arteries, and large veins that are located 
near a venous trunk. 
14. Always arrest capillary haemorrhage by irrigating the 
wound with hot or cold water, or by the application of astring¬ 
ents. 
15. Always have all the instruments required for the 
operation you are going to perform in a pan or tray, immersed 
in a strong antiseptic solution, and located within reaching 
distance. 
16. Always improvise instruments when the required one 
is not at hand. 
17. Always perform your operation in the most simple pos¬ 
sible manner. 
18. Always operate as if you u knew your business”—had 
an object in view, and were determined to accomplish it. 
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BELGIAN REVIEW. 
Enormous Ventral Hernia in a Filly—Radical Re¬ 
covery [By Prof. F. Hendrickx ],—After reviewing briefly the 
various treatments recommended in these cases, the author re¬ 
lates that of a five-months-old filly affected with a hernia on 
the right side, which extended from the external border of the 
ilio-spinalis to a level with the stifle, and from the circle of the 
false ribs to the external angle of the ilium. It measured 87 
centimetres from above below, and 43 from forward back¬ 
ward. The hernial ring was 18 to 20 centimetres in its large 
diameter and its border 12 to 14 apart. The animal was cast, 
chloroformed and the region carefully disinfected. The skin 
divided exposed a few intestinal circumvolutions, which were 
reduced and kept within the abdomen with a cloth moist with 
phenic solution. A strong suture was applied on the middle of 
the two edges, which closed the opening only partly. Then a 
series of stitches (20 in number) were applied, starting from the 
