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the body hot and dry. The alvine evacuations were frequent and 
soft — the urine was in a normal state, and the animal drank some 
white water * 
I subtracted seven or eight pounds of blood from the jugular 
vein, which very much disquieted and displeased the proprietor, — 
ordered emollient cataplasms around the throat, — the whole of the 
body to be well rubbed — the animal to be covered with a woollen 
cloth, and eight ounces of Epsom salts with a decoction of the root 
of marsh-mallows to be given in the course of the day in three 
doses, t 
On the following morning I was told that the ox was better : 
the respiration was freer, and the glands had sunk almost to their 
natural size. The same medicine. 
At night the alvine evacuations were abundant, and watery. 
The proprietor suspended the employment of the laxative, and 
came, on the morning of the third day, to tell me that the engorge- 
ment of the glands had quite disappeared, and that the ox had rumi- 
nated before his departure, and shewn a great disposition to eat. 
On the fifth day he was quite well. 
M. Gelle may well add, “ I have seen parotiditis much more ob- 
stinate, and have been compelled to renew the bleeding on the 
following day and so have we, and we have lost our patient at 
last, in despite of our utmost exertion. “ These evacuations of 
blood, aided by emollient applications and the laxative tisanne, 
have never deceived me,” says the Professor. If we have been 
consulted in time, and attended diligently on our patients, we shall 
not fail in many cases ; but there must be something different, in 
the virulence of the disease at least, which prevents every one of 
us from boasting of this uniform success. 
We extract another similar case. “ In November 1826, I was 
consulted respecting an ox, six years old, and moderately fat. He 
had had, during the last two or three days, an enormous engorge- 
ment of the right parotid, which equalled in size a loaf of three 
pounds weight. It had formed in twenty-four hours. It was 
hard, hot, and tender; but did not appear to annoy or indispose 
the animal. 
“ I bled him from the jugular, and employed emollient cataplasms 
over the gland. Five days afterwards they brought the patient to 
me. The tumour was not half of its usual size ; it was hard, in- 
sensible, and did not appear in the least degree to annoy the ani- 
* The French, instead of giving gruel so frequently as we do, are in the 
habit of stirring some oat or barley-meal in cold or lukewarm water, and 
giving it to the patient. It is a very good practice. 
f This seems to be singular treatment, but it is that which is adopted by 
the best practitioners in France. We should have given a pound of Epsom 
salts at least, in a single dose, and here are eight ounces divided into three 
doses. We shall see more of this as we proceed. 
