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uneasiness, but was relieved by a hypodermic injection of three 
grains of morphia. The only other medicinal treatment he re¬ 
ceived was a laxative dose of oil about a week after the operation. 
Slight phymosis was noticed one morning, which quickly yielded 
to moderate scarification, and the use of fomentations. The con¬ 
stitutional symptoms exhibited were very slight throughout. 
Temperature ranged from 99° to 103°, and pulse hardly varied 
from the normal. On the 28tli of December, the included por¬ 
tions of scrotum sloughed off, leaving a healthy granulating sur¬ 
face, which has since entirely healed, and at date of writing, re¬ 
covery is complete. The comparative rarity of scrotal hernia in 
the gelding renders this case somewhat interesting. Judging, 
therefore, from the success which attends this method of proced¬ 
ure, and the advantage it presents over the other mode of opera¬ 
tion, inasmuch as it is more easily performed, and no cutting is 
required, thus avoiding the introduction of atmospheric germs, 
and other sources of irritation to the delicate structures of these 
parts; I would advise its substitution in the majority of cases, for 
the old covered operation, which, no matter how well or carefully 
performed, is followed in many instances by fatal results. 
CLINICAL CHRONICLES, 
By A. Liautard. 
The peculiar weather which has lately prevailed over the 
United States has brought back amongst horses a form of disease 
with which many veterinary surgeons are familiar, ws., cerebro¬ 
spinal meningitis. Generally appearing in damp seasons, this dis¬ 
ease assumes, at times, an epizootic form, which baffles the skill 
of the practitioner. As numerous cases have already made their 
appearance in this city, and though thus far of limited preva¬ 
lence, and as it betrays a tendency to resume the form by which 
it was characterized several years ago, we have thought a reprint 
of part of an appendix to the book of Stonehenge on the Horse, 
published by G. Routledge, of London, written by Prof. A. 
Large, M.D., then Professor of Theory and Practice in the Hew 
