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shaved the walls of the hernia all around, and the hemorrhage 
from it was taken up in the sponge. The hemorrhage was slight, 
from the scarification of the parts. 
I also had a fine spray of carbolic acid—one part to two hun¬ 
dred—played on the parts during the operation. 
I removed the sponge by drawing the walls apart while my 
assistant took it out, it being fastened to a cord. 
I brought the parts together with strong metalic wire sutures, 
of which I put in seven interrupted ones, and let the ends come 
out through the skin. 
1 placed a wooden clamp of fourteen inches in length over 
the whole integument, and had small skewers pushed through 
• this, in order to hold the clamp and let my patient rise. 
He suffered considerably for a few days, but nothing alarm¬ 
ing. In fourteen days the parts sloughed off, and also two of 
the metalic sutures came away. On the seventeenth day all the 
sutures came away, leaving a large, healthy, granulating surface, 
which healed rapidly with weak solutions of carbolic acid, etc., 
and tonics internally, so that in a month from the time of opera¬ 
tion the wound had healed, leaving a cicatrix the size of a silver 
dollar, the animal went to work, and the operation a success. 
TUMOK OF THE GUTTURAL POUCHES. 
By W. C. Bryden, V.S. 
A very interesting case was treated and afterwards examined 
by me for the Boston Fire Department. The horse was attacked 
with what was supposed to be acute laryngitis. His throat was 
treated in the common way, with gargles and counter-irritants 
externally, without improvement, for about six weeks. When I 
was called in, he stood with his head well up, and could move 
about freely; but on taking drink or food the greater part 
returned through his nostrils, which were much injected and 
covered with filth—the walk of his box being also all bespattered. 
There was slight swelling of the intermaxillary glands, but the 
parotids and adjacent parts appeared shrunken, and any effort to 
