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FISTULOUS PAROTID DUCT. 
By W. Perciyall, Esq., 1st Life Guards. 
Mr. PERCIVALL has lately had under his care a case of this 
description, in which the fistulous orifice, situated a little above 
the angle of the jaw, had its origin in the puncture of a lancet, in 
opening an abscess; and in which, after three unsuccessful appli¬ 
cations of the actual cautery, he succeeded, the fourth time, by 
closely enveloping the fistulous part (previously shorn for the pur¬ 
pose) with common adhesive plaister, spread upon a broad piece of 
white leather. It may be proper to mention, also, that, for three 
or four days after the application of the iron, the animal was kept 
so tied up that he could neither lie down, nor by any possibility 
get at any other provender but what was given to him, which con¬ 
sisted, exclusively, of mashes of bran. 
PULMONARY CONSUMPTION IN THE HORSE. 
Mr. Editor, 
I HAVE certain reasons (they are not mingled or connected with 
any qualms of conscience) for withholding my name from publi¬ 
cation with the case I now send you: you, yourself, are too well 
acquainted with me, to suspect me either of misrepresentation or 
fabrication ; and I trust my case, anonymous as it is (which I left 
you beforehand, and has nothing particularly extraordinary in it), 
will appear in too natural a light to admit of any such reflections 
on the part of the reader. I do not know that any one now- 
a-days, denies the liability of the horse to pthisis pulmonalis, or 
what is vulgarly denominated “a decline:” to those that do, I 
would submit for perusal, the u plain unvarnished” narrative I 
send you as an instance of it. 
In October last, a gentleman purchased a three-years’ old 
horse of a London dealer, which, at the time of sale, had the 
strangles, a circumstance that immediately brought it under my 
care. I remarked that the colt was not well formed—that it was 
narrow-chested, flat-sided, and (if I may so express myself) pi¬ 
geon-breasted : in fact, that its fore-legs (to use a dealer’s phrase) 
appeared both to u grow out of one and the same hole:” in ad¬ 
dition to this, I may mention, that it was rather low in condition, 
and appeared disspirited, a state probably referable to the disorder 
it then had. 
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