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There is commonly a good deal of heat in the skin and feverish 

 indisposition ; the Eyes are dull and languid^ the Head is thrust out^ 

 and the Animal seems disinclined, or is unable to eat the food which 

 is presented to him. Commonly there is evinced a desire to drink, 

 but after a gulp or two, the Horse stops as if unable to gratify his 

 thirst, yet reluctant to part with the fluid which he craves. — By the 

 attempt to drink. Coughing is excited, the Animal seems evidently 

 distressed ^by the act of swallowing, and a convulsive wheezing 

 is brought on, attended with a considerable discharge of Saliva 

 and Mucus, from the mouth and throat. There is commonly a 

 very large discharge from both nostrils, of a yellowish colour, 

 and a purulent kind, which however rarely if ever, has any offen- 

 sive smell. If a Horse is known not to have had the Strangles, and 

 is attacked with the symptoms which 1 have described, there can be 

 little doubt respecting the nature of the disorder In some Horses 

 the progress of the disease is very rapid, and the urgency of the 

 symptoms very great; the cough being frequent, the fits of wheez- 

 ing violent, and the slabbering from the mouth, and discharge from 

 the nostrils very copious. It happens now and then too, that the 

 Lungs are much oppressed, and the Horse labours violently in the 

 Flanks ; — nevertheless. Bleeding is scarcely ever necessary, or 

 admissable, unless the laborious breathing be indeed very urgent. 

 Now as the grand efforts of nature in this disease, are evidently 

 direceted to bring on Suppuration in the Glands under the Jaw, or 

 those about the Throat, so it should be our business to assist her in 

 the accomplishment of the purpose which she aims at. 



But the means which are commonly had recourse to, with a view 

 to promote this salutary end, are generally of a feeble or nugatory 



