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managed to inject about ounces of the fluid, when the resist¬ 
ance became too great. Next day parotid and orbital regions 
greatly swollen, eye entirely closed on that side ; second day gone 
down a great deal, and in a few days only the swollen outlines of 
the parotid gland to be seen. A week after rubbed in a little 
Ung. Hyd. biniod to hasten affairs, and allowed dry feed for first 
time since operation. A few drops of semi-purulent discharge 
came from the fistulous opening for some days, then totally 
ceased. Three weeks after the operation the owner was driving, 
the opening healed up, the obliterated gland very slightly swollen, 
and no scars to impair her value or appearance. 
An ordinary small nozzled syringe will not do to force the 
fluid into the farthest ramifications of the gland; the Davidson 
syringe exactly fills the bill. 
Theoretically the obliteration of a parotid gland should be 
followed by all manner of awful consequences: colic from im¬ 
perfect digestion, loss of condition, etc.; but here was a mare, 
which for eight months had lost every drop of saliva secreted by 
one gland, and despite the weakening influences of this constant 
drain on her system, she was fat and sleek. The functional 
activity of the other parotid gland had doubtless increased to 
meet the emergency. 
Although this article may provoke a smile from the older and 
more experienced members of the profession, I would beg to remind 
them that what their younger confreres need is a knowledge of 
detail. Fistula of Stenon’s duct is not so frequently seen by any 
of us that we can afford to ignore the experience of others, and 
it is something, if only a little, to raises one’s voice against the 
apparently needless operation of excision. Williams, whose value 
as a practical writer is conceded more and more as our years of 
practice lengthen, merely gives the formula for an injection, and 
says to use a powerful syringe. Not a word about the choice of 
a syringe, the quantity of injection required, the condition of the 
animal’s head for the few days succeeding the operation—a 
verified prognosis of which scores a good point for us with our 
clients. Only general advice, not a word about these important 
poiuts, which, to use a slang expression, we are expected to 
