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THE 
VETERINARIAN 
VOL. I. 
NOVEMBER, 1828. 
No. 11. 
Communications anK Cases. 
Quidqiiid agunt Veterinarii 
-nostri est farrago libelli. 
FISTULOUS PAROTID DUCT. 
By W. Percivall, Esq. V. S. First Life Guards. 
[Read at the meeting of the Veterinar}' Medical Society, Oct. 15, 1828.] 
Fistulous Parotid Duct’^ foims one division only of an 
important class of surgical diseases named Salivary Fis- 
tul;e.'^ It would be wasting time to search our works on 
farriery for any information about what appears only of late days 
to have attracted the attention of veterinarians in this country. 
Even our most modem veterinaiy writers evince a singular dearth 
in regard to it. It is to the French authors (who, it would seem, 
either actually see, or seeing, observe more than we do) that we 
are almost solely, indebted ; and in particular to Hurtrel d^Arbo- 
v'al, who (in his Veterinary Medical and Surgical Dictionary’^) 
appears riot merely to have collected much information on the 
subject from various sources, but from personal practice and 
observation to have added considerably to it himself. 
By a Salivary Fistula is meant, an unnatural sinuous 
opening, communicating either with a salivary gland or with 
its duct, and through which issues niore or less of the salivaiy 
secretion. The parotid is the common subject of this breach; but 
the maxillary gland has been similarly affected. The former is 
our present object of investigation. 
The fistula, externally, wull assume various appearances, de¬ 
pendent on its origin or cause, its situation, its duration, and the 
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