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EXTENSIVE GLANDULAR DISEASE. 
March for my advice, See. relative to a swelling upon the throat, 
which at that time was not large. On examination, I found it 
consisted of the parotid glands in a state of enlargement. I had 
the hair shaved off, and the biniodide of mercury applied, and 
repeated as frequently as the skin would admit. The tumours 
increasing, instead of diminishing, I had him brought to my 
stables on the 5th of April, so that I might have him more 
immediately under my care. On the 12th, a tumour appeared 
in front of the chest, in which he manifested great tenderness 
on pressure. This was stimulated with ol. canth., but without 
any reduction: in fact, both the tumours, upon the throat and 
chest, increased every time they were stimulated, until the one 
upon the throat attained the large size of five or six pounds; 
and in this condition interfered with his swallowing so much 
that the horse in time became a complete skeleton. On the 
26th of April I prevailed upon his owner to have him destroyed. 
The whole of the viscera were in a healthy state, except the 
liver, which had deposits of fat throughout its entire substance, 
exhibiting the same appearance as the portion sent to you. The 
mesenteric glands, immediately anterior to the kidneys, weighed 
from six to eight pounds, and assumed the same appearance as the 
parotid glands; and the tumour on the chest exhibited the same 
fatty degeneration. The heart was flabby and pale, as might 
have been expected from his emaciated condition. 
I am, Sir, your’s truly, 
Henry Pyatt. 
Nottingham, May 15th, 1852. 
*** For the morbid parts sent us—portions of the parotid 
gland, larynx, trachea, and liver — we feel obliged to Mr. 
Pyatt; though, owing to our being, unfortunately, away from 
home for some days at the time of their arrival, we found them 
in too advanced a state of decomposition to make so much out 
of them as we could have desired. The larynx, which was 
considerably ossified, exhibited, interiorly, intense (• sub-acute 
we should say) inflammation, with a great deal of thickening of 
the lining membrane; which was likewise the case with the 
lining of the windpipe. The parotid gland (enormously en¬ 
larged, as the account of the case has shewn it to be) 
was converted into one uniform mass of fat, studded with 
growths, some of large size, of yellow, firm, fibrous sub¬ 
stance, very like in aspect the pack-wax , or yellow elastic 
tissue, in the spine and other parts : hardly any of the true 
glandular structure being, we should say, spared conversion into 
one or the other substance. The liver was changed to a light 
clay colour; and its substance, thus generally altered, was beset 
