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to a mild attack in which the intermaxillary abscess 

 has been badly treated. In such a case we often find 

 an old cicatrix or other unmistakable sign. Now when 

 you come to think that, next to the eye itself, one of 

 the most delicate organs of the body (the larynx) has 

 been, it may be, for weeks, half, if not wholly, surrounded 

 by inflamed tissue, and involved in the inflammation, 

 you will readily understand how guarded you should be 

 in your examination of the " wind " of such a one for 

 evidences of " roaring." The glands of this part should 

 be normal. A hardened, slightly enlarged gland ma,, 

 indicate disease in the nasal chamber, or in a molar 

 tooth. 



Next pass your right hand to the "poll" (vertex 

 of the occiput) gently, and use pressure; there should 

 be no soreness, tumefaction, nor evidence of a strap 

 having been worn. The hand is then passed over 

 the parotid gland, and the end of the second finger 

 should be buried as it travels along the posterior 

 border of the jaw. Inflamed parotids are not un- 

 common, but almost the same may be said regarding 

 them as was said of the evidence of strangles ; 

 though the larynx, being further away, is less liable 

 to suffer. Calcareous degeneration of the parotids 

 is by no means unfrequent ; usually only one is 

 affected, and the subject is aged. Beyond being an 

 eye-sore, this affection is of little or no consequence 

 in itself, though it points unmistakably to the horse 

 being the subject of degeneration in one gland which 



