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ON THE PRODUCTION OF ANIMALCULE 
body of the tongue. At the same time emollient applications 
should be placed between the two branches of the maxillary bone, 
while the vapour of diluted vinegar is directed towards the mouth. 
Some persons insist on gargarisms of barley-water, with a small 
portion of vinegar and honey, and the exhibition of laxative 
medicines. 
A general bleeding is indicated when the heart is irritated sym- 
pathetically. It should also be repeated when the return or 
violence of the glossitis demands it. No time should be lost in 
such case. If, in despite of all these measures, the swelling of the 
tongue increases, and even menaces suffocation, there should be 
no hesitation in having recourse to tracheotomy. The diminution 
of the swelling and of the other inflammatory phenomena generally 
follows these last measures. If, nevertheless, it should turn out 
otherwise, and that the inflammation of the tongue terminates in 
suppuration or gangrene, in the first case we should give issue to 
the pus by an incision, employing emollient gargarisms ; then 
others, acidulated with honey, and afterwards astringents, replaced, 
if the suppuration should so far prolong itself, with tonic injections 
of bark and honey, or tincture of myrrh, or balsam of Peru. 
In the second case we should employ gargarisms made with the 
same decoction, but acidulated with a mineral acid. 
ON THE PRODUCTION OF ANIMALCULE DURING 
THE PROCESS OF DIGESTION. 
In a recent number of the “ Comptes Rendus ” there is an ex- 
cellent account, by Messieurs Gruby and Delafond, of “ Researches 
upon some animalculse that are developed, during digestion, in great 
numbers, in the stomach and intestines, in herbivorous and grami- 
nivorous animals.” These we have transcribed, in the hope that 
some of the practical veterinarians of our country will direct their 
attention to the subject. The natural history of the entozoa and 
epizoa of the lower animals presents a wide field for inquiry, and 
would afford ample rewards to such as enter on it with zeal and 
industry. 
The entozoa which are thus formed during the digestive process 
are found without much difficulty, by subjecting a solution of the 
recent excrements to the microscope, or in the fluid that may be 
found in the digestive canal immediately after death. 
1st. Ruminants have, during their digestive process in the cud, 
four species, and the chyme : — 
