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those that remained were diseased. I found them very much 
emaciated, with some exceptions; occasionally coughing, with 
expectoration of mucus; muzzle dry, with small sores,which were 
pitted or scabbed; watery or purulent discharges from the eyes ; 
in the advanced stages dropsical swellings beneath the jaws; 
patient weak; respiration hurried; appetite good, until a few 
hours before death. In an autopsy of one, I observed the follow¬ 
ing lesions: All the lower portions of the lungs were hepatized, 
as well as a great part of the remainder. I could not find any 
cysts or tubercles. I found in the bronchia and trachea a large 
number of the parasites in a frothy mucus. I found, also, a few 
parasites in the intestines. The heart was filled to its entire 
capacity with firmly coagulated blood. I cut open the ventricles, 
and withdrew the clots, which showed a complete cast of these 
cavities, as well as of the auricles, and all of the vessels to 
some distance from the heart. The clot extended for about one 
foot in the posterior aorta, and to this were attached clots from 
the collateral arteries. 
As our authors claim such great tenacity of life in the 
strongyle, will the editor please give a remark in the Review as 
to the possibility of destroying them by inhalation ?—[Fumiga¬ 
tions are often recommended, but according to Steel “ it is highly 
probable that parasites can stand a more severe dose of the med» 
icines than the calves can.”— Ed.] 
CHRONIC SCROTAL HERNIA — OPERATION — RE¬ 
COVERY. 
J 
By C. W. Crowley, D.V.S. 
In October, 1879, I was requested by Mr. A. W. Brown, of 
Collinsville, Ill, to visit his stock farm and examine a valuable 
eight-year-old stallion. I made the visit, and found the animal 
with a chronic scrotal hernia, which had first made its appearance 
about two years previous. It had continually increased in size, 
in warm weather, up to the time of my visit, when it reached to 
within a few inches ©f the animal’s hocks, dangling to and fro, 
striking the legs at each step. 
