56 4 ON THE EDUCATION OF THE HORSE. 
and produce such irascible feelings as were displayed in Mr. P.’s 
rejoinder in The Veterinarian for July last. He has, in 
compliance with Mr. P.’s wish, read his letter over again; and 
though by this he does court the knock-down blow of criticism, 
and seems to beg a reasonable thwack upon his shoulders, with 
as much good will as ever did the foolish bird, the penguin, her 
death at the hands of a sailor in the South Seas, he refrains, 
in mercy to the readers of The Veterinarian, from troubling 
them any further in the matter; for to form a just conception of 
what Mr. Pritchard intended to convey in his letter, would be 
attended with as much trouble and difficulty as the unrolling of 
the antique parchments of the Herculaneum, or the Egyptian 
papyri; and, like them, when deciphered, not worth the 
trouble. 
A CASE OF VIVES. 
By Mr. Cole, F.S., Bognor. 
To the Editors of ic The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
Having since its commencement read, with much pleasure, 
and advantage, your interesting and useful publication The 
Veterinarian, I beg to enclose you a case of vives which I 
have lately successfully treated: although the case may appear 
common, the treatment frequently used proves unsuccessful. 
You will, I hope, deem it worth insertion. 
Arran Lodge, Bognor, Sussex, JEREMIAH Cole. 
Sept. 1832. 
The horse came off a journey on the 25th of July, 1832, and 
was placed under my care on the 30th. He had previously been 
hard-worked, and was suffering much from constitutional derange¬ 
ment : pulse 40. The first symptom that presented itself was a 
swelling of the parotid gland, which gradually spread downward 
under the throat. 
August 1st .—Warm fomentations were applied to the parts, 
and a poultice used, made by boiling two poppy heads in a pint 
of water to half a pint, and adding a tablespoonful of yeast, and 
a sufficient quantity of linseed powder to form the poultice: it 
remained on for twenty-four hours ; I again fomented, and then 
repeated the poultice. The tumour continued gradually to in¬ 
crease in size for three or four days: upon pressure a fluid was de¬ 
tected, which gave evidence of the process of suppuration. 
August 6tli .—Being apprehensive of farcy, I gave a dose of 
opening physic, which materially retarded the suppuration; and 
