CYNANCHE FAROTIDEA. 
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There appears to be an excessive secretion of saliva, and no 
power or disposition to swallow it. Continue the steaming 
and fomentations. Clothe the body, bandage the legs, and 
feed on bran mashes. The faeces have resumed their usual 
consistence. 
25th. — Much improved ; swelling diminished ; he partakes 
freely of mash, but refuses water. Ordered 3 iij aloes, in com- 
bination with gentian and ginger as before. Continue 
steaming and fomentations. 
26th. — Steadily improving; eats mash readily, but still 
refuses -water; laxative not operating; no discharge of saliva; 
the weather being severe, wind from north-east blowing 
hard, cannot give exercise to promote the action of the 
bowels. 
27th. — Left parotid rather hard; has partaken very freely 
of water this morning for the first time since affected, the 
result of which is that the bowels are acting too much ; 
ordered a feed of dry bran, which checks purgation very 
satisfactorily in many cases. 
28th. — Faeces have assumed an ordinary consistence ; no 
discharge of saliva ; appetite improved ; glandular inflame 
mation evidently perfectly resolved ; ordered tonics. 
March 6th. — Discharged cured. 
I have thought myself justified in sending you the fore- 
going description of what was to me a most interesting case ; 
and not having heard or seen described a similar one, I have 
presumed a brief outline -would not be wanting in novelty 
at least to some of your readers, many of whom have 
observed, as I have often, eases of parotideal inflammation 
and ptyalism from animals licking lime off the newly lime- 
washed stall, which was not the case in this instance, it, in 
my opinion, arising from constitutional causes. 
THE BLOOD GLOBULES. 
In reptiles, birds, and fishes, the red globules are ellipti- 
cal, a form possessed also by some of the mammalia, chiefly 
of the family camelidm; they likewise differ in size in different 
animals. Besides these red particles, the blood contains some 
few -white ones, which are of a larger size, and consist each 
of twenty or thirty exceedingly minute granules, enclosed in 
an investing membrane ; these granules are frequently met 
w 7 ith loose in the circulation, and are believed by some to be 
the embryos of the mature red corpuscle. 
