Diagnosis and treatment of tonsillar calculi; spud; acid dressings.
Trauma of soft palate by stick, probang, file, molar. Abscess of
palate. Treatment; laxative; expectorant; antiseptic; lancing. Cleft
palate and hare lip.
Rudimentary as these organs are in the equine race they are important
enough to have become the seat of hard calculous masses. These have been
found by Goubaux and Blanc in old asses, and by the author in old
horses. They vary in size from a pin’s head to a pea and consist of
concentric layers of a granular material arranged around a central
nucleus, which is usually a foreign body introduced with the food. This
nucleus is usually of a vegetable nature, while the enveloping material
is made up largely of the imprisoned and degenerated epithelium of the
follicle. Both diagnosis and treatment are difficult in such cases. The
adventitious masses should be dislodged by the aid of a smooth, blunt
metallic spud, and the surface thereafter washed or swabbed with an
antiseptic and astringent solution. Swabbing with a solution of
hydrochloric acid will tend to dissolve and remove them.