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addition of the insertion of setons, never recovered ; her eyelid, 

 and ear, and side of her lip, remained down, and she continually 

 kept slavering, until, at last, I lost sight of her. 



" I knew a mare in which the saliva ran out of the mouth in a 

 most astonishing manner. The cause I found to be a slight 

 attack of paralysis on one side of the upper lip. 



" My attention was once directed to a cow that had been slaver- 

 ing for upwards of nine months previous. Gallons of saliva 

 might be caught in the course of twenty-four hours. I examined 

 this cow over and over again, but never could find any apparent 

 cause for the morbid secretion. She had milked well the greater 

 part of the time, and had never failed in her appetite. Although 

 she had become very poor, she was sold to a slink butcher. I 

 had not an opportunity of making a post mortem examination. 

 The person that opened her could discover ' nothing the matter.' 



" In another case of a cow, which presented the symptoms of 

 the case last described, and which had been amiss about a month, 

 we treated thus : a gentle purge was first given ; afterwards, an 

 occasional stimulant and tonic were administered ; and the region 

 of the parotid and submaxillary glands well blistered ; and this 

 was repeated. She ultimately recovered." 



INFLAMMATION OF THE TONGUE — {Glossitis.) 



This is generally supposed to arise from injury to the tongue ; 

 but cases frequently occur that cannot be traced to this source. 

 We treated a case of this kind occurring in a horse, the property 

 of Mr. Thomas Bancroft. The animal had performed his usual 

 labor, when, on putting him up at night, the tongue was observed 

 to be swollen, and the tip protruding on one side. On careful 

 examination, no lesion nor injury of any kind could be found. 

 Next day, the tongue was enormously swollen, so that the pa-" 

 tient was unable to close the nippers ; he had also inflammato- 

 ry sore throat, and considerable fever. The treatment consisted 

 in applying stimulating liniment to the throat ; the mouth was 

 kept constantly moist with salt and water, occasionally cram- 

 ming a handful of salt between the jaws; he subsisted on thin 

 oatmeal gruel, acidulated with cream of tartar, and got well in 



