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Title: Diseases of the dog and their treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Müller, Georg Alfred, 1851-1923 Glass, Alexander
Subjects: Horses Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Alexander Eger
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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irth. It may increase graduallyand beeome eventually strangulated, but it often disappears without anysurgical interference. Hernia of the omentum we see occasionally, butgenerally it cures itself by an adhesion between the hernial pouch andthe hernial ring. Umbilical hernia is easily recognized (Fig. 129). Wefind a swelling under the umbilical ring, which may vary in size from ahazelnut to a walnut. Therapeutics.—Treatment consists, as a rule, in very young animals, 392 HERNIAL RUPTURE of the application of a bandage over the hernia and kept there for threeor four weeks, thus holding the abdominal contents back and allowingthe opening to close spontaneously. The bandage consists of a tamponof lint which is fixed to a piece of rubber adhesive plaster or, better still,the round top of a bicycle repair plug with the stem cut off, then adhesiverubber plaster is placed in strips in a circle, as per Fig. 130. Beforeapplying the plaster it is wellto clean off the skin on the region of the
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X-^UdiLJiiA^^^^ Fig. 129.—Umbilical hernia. umlnlicus with ether or benzine to get better adhesion. Shoemakerswax is also used as an adhesive substance. It is best to put a strip band-age around the body to retain the bandage in position. Another more certain method is to place the animal on his back,reduce the hernia; the hernial pouch is pulled away from the body, anda needle carried through the centre of the base of the sac, the thread iscut through at the needle and then each side of the ligature knotted,dividing the tumor. Almost immediately the tumor dries and mummi-fies, and in a w^eek or ten days falls off with the stitches, leaving a raw

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