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INORDINATE EXCITATION OF FACIAL NERVE. 
straw-coloured serum that will escape from the punctures ; 
this lymph-like fluid would have become coagulated and 
organised. I am free to admit that this method of treatment 
is attended with a percentage of recoveries far greater than 
resulted from my former mode of treatment, and, as far as I 
can ascertain, than that of any other practitioner I have had 
the opportunity of comparing notes with. 
INORDINATE EXCITATION OF FACIAL NERVE • 
IMPLICATION OF CHORDA TYMPANI, AT- 
TENDED WITH EXCESSIVE SALIVARY SE¬ 
CRETION. 
By W. Hastie Kennedy, M.R.C.V.S., Wrexham. 
It gives me much pleasure to be able to communicate the 
following interesting case of extreme inordinate excitation 
of the facial nerve. There are anatomical and physiological 
points to be noticed of considerable value, and which appear 
of much worth and critical note. I only wish the details 
of the communication had been placed in hands more com¬ 
petent to do it the justice it appears to me to deserve. 
Permit me simply to narrate the conditions presented, and 
to give, as assisting the particular inferences to be drawn 
therefrom, certain opinions bearing upon these; I shall then 
be able finally to leave the reader to form his own more 
perfect judgment upon the apparent conclusions which it 
seems to me are to be elicited from a perusal of its 
history. 
Cases of extreme general excitation of the facial nerve 
are occasionally, but, I believe, rarely met with; they are 
invariably characterised by the production of severe and 
continuous spasmodic muscular contractions and excitations 
of the parts implicated. A limited portion only of structure 
may be affected, such as the muscles of a lip singly, or those 
of the nose, or the muscles of the eyelids, but at other times 
we may find the whole of the muscular and other important 
structures which receive their nervous energy from the 
facial to be completely under such abnormal influence. 
The following is the history of a case where the whole 
nervous track and the structures under its immediate influ¬ 
ence were simultaneously involved. The subject of the 
affection was an aged chestnut horse, which had regularly 
been used for daily carting and shunting purposes, had 
always been a healthy horse, and had never evinced any 
