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and nature will do a great deal in a disease of this kind. The 

 general health is to be kept up by good feeding and tonic medicine 

 — such as fifteen drops of the tincture of nux vomica, four times 

 in the twenty -four hours. Turn the horse from side to side twice 

 in the day, and give plenty of dry, clean bedding to prevent the 

 skin from scalding and peeling off — which is sometimes a source 

 of great irritation to the poor horse. The paralyzed parts should 

 be well rubbed with a stiff brush. Electricity has been regarded 

 as an advantage in this disease, but from what I have seen, not 

 much need be expected from it. The nux vomica offers, with good 

 feeding and care, the best chance for recovery. It must be re- 

 membered that this is a nervous affection, and probably these 

 diseases are not so manageable, nor are they so easily cured, as 

 other affections of a different type. 



Parotid Duct. — Distended. — This is a rare affection in horses. 

 It resembles a round ball attached to the edge of the lower jaw ; 

 an elastic encysted tumor, or rather like an encysted tumor. An 

 incident, slightly illustrative of appearance, occurred some time 

 since. I was called in to see a horse that proved to be so affected, 

 and told the gentleman that so long as the ball did not break, it 

 would do the horse no injury, and that I would not recommend 

 its removal; whereupon he said he would give five hundred dol- 

 lars if the horse had another on the other side, that then he would 

 look like an Angora goat. 



Open and Fistulous. — This is a serious affection, for with every 

 movement of the jaw^ in chewing or masticating the feed, the 

 glands pour out the saliva which should mix with the feed, and 

 assist in the act of digestion, and it is lost upon the ground. The 

 animal becomes thin of flesh, gets weak, and after a time dies a 

 miserable object. 



Causes. Injuries, or accident to the gland or its duct, resulting 

 in suppuration. From the mobility of the parts, fistula is estab- 

 lished. 



Treatment Few horse doctors or farmers can cure this affection. 

 An expert or accomplished surgeon is only able to effect a cure, 

 and this will be by closing the open or fistulous duct, so that the 

 saliva will, with the feed, find its way into the stomach. 



India rubber dissolved in chloroform, applied over the mouth 



