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REVIEW. — CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
It was an illustration of the sudden and violent swelling which 
sometimes takes place in this organ. The means adopted were 
right and proper ones. The whole tongue presented one enormous 
congestion of blood, which the bistoury permitted gradually to 
escape ; but a scirrhus would have required different and longer 
treatment, if it could have been subdued at all. 
The Professor makes no mention of another disease — at first 
purely one of the tongue, but ultimately involving the whole of the 
neighbouring parts — Blain or Gloss-anthrax — large red or livid 
vesicles or bladders, running along the side and base of the tongue — 
sometimes rapidly and fearfully enlarging, and threatening to suf- 
focate the animal ; and, unless relief is afforded in the course of a 
few hours, assuming a typhoid form, and destroying the patient. 
The work on “ Cattle,” previously referred to, gives a long account 
of this disease. 
Disease of the cheeks is rarely found in cattle, except ulcerative 
wounds from the rough and irregular molars, or the spreading of 
the aphthous inflammation already described, or the thickening and 
enlargement of some of the salivary glands, which are so abun- 
dantly found in this region. They are sometimes not much larger 
than a millet seed ; they grow, and they waste away again and 
disappear; nothing is required to be done to them, except they 
attain an inconvenient size, and press against the teeth, and get 
wounded, and obstinate ulceration follows. *In this case, or before 
they do attain any great size, they should be dissected out. 
Maladies of the Salivary Glands. 
Inflammation of the parotid glands in the ox is of too frequent 
occurrence on the continent and in our own country. It is known 
by the appropriate name of Strangullion, because the poor beast 
threatens to be strangled every moment. The author of “ Cattle” 
describes it and its appropriate treatment in England. M. Gelle 
narrates a case of it which came under his notice in France. 
“ I was called to see an ox, four years old, in good condition, 
who had been found, that morning, standing against the fence in 
one of the meadows, shivering — his legs drawn together under 
him — the throat swollen — the respiration difficult — the head pro- 
truding horizontally — and the mouth filled with saliva. (This is a 
peculiarly graphic sketch). He was brought into the stable. I was 
assured that he was perfectly well on the foregoing evening — that 
he had done his work well — did not appear to be fatigued, nor to 
have perspired, and had fed and ruminated all the day. 
The parotid and maxillary glands were considerably swelled, 
hard, hot, and tender — the respiration was laborious, and a little 
whistling — the flanks were agitated, and the animal continued up. 
The mouth was red and hot, and the saliva ran profusely from it — 
all the mucous membranes were injected — the muzzle was dry — 
the eyes weeping — the pulse full and developed — the surface of 
