OP THE DUODENUM. 
I did intend to have made a wet preparation of the bowel, and 
anticipated the honour of presenting it to the President of your 
Society for his inspection, knowing how pleased he is to add 
any morbid specimen to that vast collection which his industry 
has already acquired ; but I regret much that, from an accident, 
it has been so mutilated as to be valueless, except to myself. 
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, may I ask, what situation I should 
have been placed in if Mr. B. had sold the animal between the 
attacks, and my opinion had been required by the purchaser? 
Should I not have been justified in giving it against him? Ve- 
terinary jurisprudence is a portion of our art that has been little 
treated of, but upon which much might be said by some master- 
mind. 
THE EFFECT OF IODINE ON GLANDULAR 
TUMOURS. 
By Mr . Holford, of Northwich. 
Observing in the last month’s Veterinarian several 
cases relative to the action of iodine in glandular enlargements ; 
being also encouraged by a pleasing and somewhat persuasive 
sentence in Mr. Cowell’s remarks, I transmit the following : — • 
The subject of my patient was a Welsh galloway, of an ex- 
ceedingly plethoric habit and hardy constitution, aged six years, 
the property of John Cheshire, Esq. of Hartford, near this place. 
On July 16th, 1836, 1 was requested to examine the animal’s 
throat, as she did not display her usual spirits and vigour during 
that day’s journey. On finding the parotid glands enlarged, and 
the other symptoms usually connected therewith, I ordered a 
blister to be applied to the throat, and gave a little sedative and 
laxative medicine, hoping, with the addition of mash diet, that in 
a few days she would be convalescent. 
My patient being six miles from my residence, I was pre- 
vented from seeing her again until the 3d of August, at which 
time I found the glands larger. I now anticipated that suppu- 
ration would be the termination of the case, and with a view to 
hasten it I repeated the blister, and ordered that, after its ac- 
tion, hot poultices should be applied until I next saw her. 
10 th . — The tumour is no smaller, nor is the suppurative pro- 
cess in the slightest degree advanced. From this time to the 
20th I occasionally visited my patient. My treatment during 
this period consisted in repeated blisters, mercurial frictions, vari- 
