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NUMEROUS workers have shown that the parotid glands of ruminants secrete saliva continuously, but only a small number of observations have been made on the secretion of both glands in the one animal. Scheunert and his colleagues1 observed that the two parotids of sheep secrete independently of one another and considered it probable that the fistulated parotid secretes only a minimal amount of saliva. Colin2 ascribed the differences in the secretion of the two parotid glands which he observed in the case of an ox to the preference on the part of the animal for chewing on the non-operated side.
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SOMERS, M. Comparison of the Salivary Secretion of Both Parotid Glands in a Sheep. Nature 182, 400 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182400a0
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