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His first dressings were tow and cold water, succeeded by two 

 or three sutures, and confined by a long figure of S bandage, as 

 recommended by Lafosse for cataract. 



In the course of the healing process, which went on well in the 

 neck and eye, the parotid duct got opened, and for a time 

 baffled all M. Crepin's efforts to close it again. Cauterization at 

 last proved effectual. 



The mare went to work before the wounds were healed, every 

 thing appearing to be doing quite well, when, scarcely were the 

 wounds closed before new morbid productions began to form under 

 the cicatrices ; and, in May 1833, the evil had become as great as 

 ever. Ever since the last operation there had remained on the 

 cornea, near the nasal organ, a fleshy growth of the magnitude of 

 a lentil. This rapidly and extensively spread, and covered a great 

 part of the eye, and in the end projected beyond the lids, prevent- 

 ing them from closing. Its extreme parts were continuallv emit- 

 ting blood, and great pain was occasioned by the continued inju- 

 ries to which it was exposed. For this reason, and others of a 

 humane kind, the mare was delivered over to the farmer, who pro- 

 mised to treat her kindly, and not work her hard. Shortly 

 afterwards she quite suddenly turned out a roarer, to a degree to 

 threaten suffocation on the slightest exertion. Her sufferings were 

 at length terminated by a single blow; it being considered the 

 greatest happiness to her, in her present state, to die without the 

 knowledge of it. 



Post-mortem Appearances. — The superior portion of the 

 trachea was found farcied, with masses of different volumes com- 

 municating with each other by a dense fibrous tissue. These 

 tumours were formed of an exterior envelope of white, fibrous, 

 cellular tissue, enclosing a scirrhous structure tending to an en- 

 cephaloid nature ; some portions being hard and white, the re- 

 mainder of a yellow colour, and of a less firm consistence. A 

 mass of tumours abutting against the upper part of the trachea had 

 caused it to bend to the left side, and had penetrated between the 

 ligaments of the tube as low down as the fifteenth ring. The 

 whole of the tumours weighed at least five pounds. The parotid 

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