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THE COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS, 
On the fifteenth day after, the accident the wound was cicatrized, 
and the saliva had resumed its natural course. Messrs. Philippe 
and Yitry have remarked the disappearance of a fistula of the same 
organ after a lapse of six weeks, without other aid than the efforts 
of nature and attention to cleanliness* * * § . To these facts we might 
add numerous cases of cicatrization that have followed the ex- 
traction of salivary calculi from the parotidean canal. 
Two observations of this nature will be found in the Compte 
Rendu de V Ecole de Lyon for the year 181 Ot. More recently 
Messrs. Lejeunef, 01ivier§, Brossardlf, and MazureJ, have re- 
ported cases in which cicatrization of incision of the salivary canal 
has taken place without the natural course of the saliva being 
impeded or intercepted. 
We shall terminate this rapid analytic sketch by quoting the 
opinion so often uttered by M. Regnault in his clinical lectures. 
We are ignorant of the results which he has obtained from the 
experiments on ligature, of the parotid duct undertaken by him; but 
in many instances we have heard this talented professor call the 
attention of his pupils to the exaggeration of the gravity of lesions 
of the parotids and of their excretory ducts. 
We owe this homage to truth, to the respect which we bear for 
our master, and to a recollection of the kindness with which he 
honoured us while we were at the School at Alfort. 
[To be continued.] 
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and the 
Veterinary Colleges— the Council and the Charter. 
[From the Era , April 19, 1846.] 
Two years have elapsed since the Crown was pleased to grant 
a charter to the Veterinarians, recognising their calling as a pro- 
fession, and empowering their body to elect a council to frame bye- 
laws, hold property, &c. Mighty were the expectations many en- 
tertained when the existence of such a grant was first made public. 
Some imagined the charter was to put an end to all quacks and 
farriers ; others supposed that it would confer all manner of immu- 
nities, or bestow every species of privilege ; and not a few hailed 
it as the source whence was to flow never-ending prosperity. The 
* Journal Pratique, 1829, p. 91. 
t Read by Grognier on the 17th of May, 1830. 
| Journal Pratique, 1826, p. 45. Journal Pratique, 1828, p.492 
§ Journal Pratique, 1826, p, 489. || Related by D’Arboval. 
