THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXXVI. 
No. 425. 
MAY, 1863. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 101. 
Communications and Cases, 
OBSERVATIONS ON SOUNDNESS.^^ 
By R. H. Dyer, M.R.C.V.S., Waterford. 
{Continuedfromp, 209.) 
Fistulous parotid duct may be considered as a sequel to 
strangles; so may glanders, bronchitis, roaring, thick-wind, 
&c. The parotid duct is seldom diseased, at least I have seen 
but few cases; when met with, however, it generally gives 
the practitioner much trouble. It is not probable a veterinary 
surgeon would overlook such an affection except in the hurry 
of a fair, and the seller ranks with the knowing ones. I 
have seen only three cases. The first was a patient at the 
College during my pupilage. Being dresser’^ at the time, 
it afforded me an opportunity of collecting the saliva as it 
flowed from, the duct during the process of mastication, and 
of ascertaining the quantity secreted. If my memory serves 
me, this horse left the institution cured. The other cases 
were my own patients; both of which, after much trouble 
and loss of time, yielded to treatment and got well. A horse 
with fistulous parotid duct is of necessity unsound. 
I have heard of carious teeth having been mistaken for 
glanders. I don’t exactly see how a carious tooth could be 
mistaken for glanders, so as to warrant a veterinary surgeon 
condemning a horse to the hands of the slaughterer; never¬ 
theless, I have read such a statement, although I cannot now 
point to the record thereof. 
There are symptoms which are analogous to those of 
glanders, such as a discharge from one or both nostrils, w hich 
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