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REPORTS OF CASES. 
submaxillary glands were swollen. I examined him and found 
his temperature slightly elevated and a slight tenderness to the 
touch of the glands. I diagnosed influenza and prescribed feb¬ 
rifuges and ammonia liniment. 
July 7.—Temperature almost normal ; no more, if any ten¬ 
derness, and eating better. Owner thought I had better see 
him next day. 
July 8.—For all I could see was all right. Told owner he 
could use horse the following day. 
July 9.—Owner called me, saying the horse was worse. 
Found temperature slightly elevated, and parotid gland swol¬ 
len quite a little, but he was eating well. Had gland rubbed 
with ammonia liniment, and diagnosed distemper. 
July 10 and it.—H orse about the same, only swollen much 
more, and very sore. Put on blister of cantharides on nth. 
July 13.—Horse not eating, carrying head to one side, and 
swollen from base of ear, and filling submaxillary space. Still 
stuck to my diagnosis, but remarked when questioned by owner 
that it was out of the ordinary. 
July 14.—Dr. Williams, of Ithaca, who was in our city, saw 
the case with me. He thought it was a distemper abscess; 
also thought it was out of the ordinary, but remarked that he 
had had such cases, and when they broke the whole bunch 
of horses in the barn came down with distemper. Foreign 
body in Steno’s duct was suggested, but we finally came away 
with our minds made up that it was an abscess, any way. At 
this time it showed no sign of opening. 
July 16.—Pound it soft in two places; one, half way be¬ 
tween base of ear and angle of inferior maxilla ; another, in 
submaxillary space. I opened the lower place, and it con¬ 
tained a thin and very foul smelling fluid. I inserted my 
finger, and, to my surprise, took out a timothy head with 
about 1 to 1inches of stem, the head pointing upward. 
This opening not draining the soft place above thoroughly, 
I opened it and found it contained the same kind of fluid. My 
two openings connected, so I made connection larger. I now 
diagnosed it foreign body in Steno’s duct. It healed slowly 
under antiseptic treatment, except in the extreme upper part of 
gland another abscess formed, about the size of an egg, which 
was lanced and treated. Henceforth the case did nicely 
and recovery became complete, the whole gland being de¬ 
stroyed. 
