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was arranged that my friend M. Leblanc should perform the 
operation, which he already had done on another occasion with 
success. We were about to fix the day, when the discharge* 
suddenly stopped and reappeared no more. This was doubtless 
owing to a cauterization in the form of punctures, which I had 
practised a few days before on the parotid gland, and the whole 
surface of which was afterwards covered with blister ointment. 
As soon as the discharge ceased the mare was sent to her 
usual work, and continued in perfect health during several months, 
being fully as strong and as willing as she was before her illness. 
It may not be improper to remark, that even during the salivary 
discharge she had re-acquired a portion of that condition which 
she had lost immediately after the operation. My readers may 
draw what conclusion they please from this circumstance, but 1 
only relate it as an historical fact for the sake of those who may 
institute any researches into the use of the saliva, and the incon¬ 
venience or danger of its escape by an external wound. 
The wounds were scarcely firmly closed when new morbid 
productions began to form under the cicatrices, and, in the 
month of May 1833, the evil was become as great as ever. From 
the time of the last operation there had remained on the cornea, 
near the nasal angle, a fleshy vegetation as large as a lentil, and 
of the same form. This rapidly and extensively increased, and 
covered a great part of the eye, and finished by projecting be¬ 
yond the lids, which it prevented from closing. The extremity 
of it was continually bleeding, and it occasioned great pain to 
the animal, by the frequent injuries to which its exuberance 
exposed it. For that reason, and from a feeling the nature of 
which he can easily conceive to whom the view of suffering is 
always painful, it was decided that she should be put into the 
hands of a farmer who had promised to treat her kindly, and 
never to subj ect her to hard work. The good feeling of the country¬ 
man was put to very short trial; for all at once she became a 
roarer, and that to such a degree that she was threatened with 
suffocation after the slightest exertion. 
We thought that we should accomplish the wishes of her first 
owner, by promptly relieving her from tortures already too pro¬ 
longed, and all her misfortunes were terminated by one blow— 
the only recompence for fifteen years’ good service—an end, 
however, which is unfortunate only in appearance, for the greatest 
happiness of life is to die without thinking of it. 
M. Leblanc was present at her death, and he gives the follow¬ 
ing account of the post-mortem appearances. Exteriorly there 
were many cicatrices along the course of the right parotid duct, 
under the jaw, and over the parotidean region, as far as the base 
