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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 may 
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 
