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The cause of the torsion was no doubt explained when the 
owner stated that about a week previous, the mare was taken 
sick with a severe attack of flatulent colic, and during the 
paroxysms of pain would throw herself down violently and roll 
over from side to side. This is the first case of torsion of the 
uterus ever met with in my practice, and I can assure my pro¬ 
fessional brethren that I am in no hurry to encounter a second 
one. 
HERNIA IN A CAT—SURGICAL INTERFERENCE—RECOVERY. 
By Robert W. Eeeis, D. V. S., New York. 
About June ist was requested to see a black male cat about 
a year and a half old ; dull, not eating, and sitting about list¬ 
lessly a great part of the time. Examination revealed a reduci¬ 
ble hernia, slightly to the left of the median line of the abdo¬ 
men, and about midway between the rim of the pubis and the 
xiphoid appendage of the sternum ; running slightly in an 
oblique direction forward and inward ; its anterior extremity 
being apart from the median line about one-fourth of an inch ; 
its posterior extremity, about three-fourths. Upon manipulation 
of the rim or edge of the hernia, after reduction, it proved to be 
slit-like in form, and about two and one-half inches in length, 
which I considered quite extensive, when compared with the 
length of an ordinary cat’s body ; and I may say to my profes¬ 
sional friends, if not to its mistress, that the subject in question 
is an ordinary cat. The hernial sac before reduction was about 
the size of a large walnut. An operation was suggested to the 
owner of the cat, as the only treatment from which satisfactory 
results could be reasonably expected. This conclusion was 
reached by the following reasoning : ist. The rent was slit-like 
in form, the hernia readily reducible and apparently free from 
adhesions, all points in favor of good results following an opera¬ 
tion. 2d. The hernial sac was large, the rent in the abdominal 
muscles long, the uncontrollable nature of the animal, were all 
points unfavorable to other forms of treatment, as the use of 
trusses, etc. 
Accordingly, at the owner’s request, I operated on June 12. 
The cat, after being placed under the influence of ether, was 
laid upon his back, the hernia reduced, and thorough aseptic 
measures being observed, an incision was made in the skin, suf¬ 
ficiently large to receive a small curved scissors with which the 
opening in the skin was enlarged (being held away from the 
intestines with forceps), so as to expose the gaping aperture in 
