344 VIVES — A GLANDULOUS DISORDER, [BOOK IT. 



which he then partly closes, as if about to sleep. 

 Similarly hereto, for want of the due supply of 

 saliva from other glands of the mouth, inflammation 

 of the gUms takes place, producing what is vulgarly 

 called Lampers, or swelling of the roof of the mouth 

 near the front teeth. Sometimes the swelling of 

 the parotid glands, if not assiduously subdued, 

 continues a fortnight or longer, becoming more 

 troublesome every day, and evidently occasioning 

 very much pain ; all this while the horse loses con- 

 dition, is feverish, and at length so weak as to totter 

 when he moves, even in his stall. Spreading down- 

 wards under the throat, they at length terminate in 

 strangles, and are then to be treated as such. 



The cure of vives that arise from simple cold is 

 very easy, but not so that which is connected with 

 a general bad habit of body ; for, then the swelling 

 and subsequent suppuration of the abscess must be 

 considered as an effort of nature to relieve itself 

 from something that is offensive to it, and must be 

 treated as a disease of the whole system, nature 

 having adopted this or that particular spot for de- 

 monstrating its offence. But we have already 

 explained this interesting point of veterinary pa- 

 thology, much at large, when treating of other 

 tumours and abscesses, at page 305, &c. Often- 

 times it happens that the vives depend upon glan- 

 ders or farcy, of which they are then a correspond- 

 ent symptom, and will only subside or " go back," 

 when the virulence of these are reduced. How- 

 ever, no harm can come of fomenting the part with 



