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CLASS viri. 



THE STRANGLES, GLANDERS, 

 STAGGERS, AND CONVULSIONS, 



STRANGLES. 



Not one feasible reason has ever been ad- 

 duced "vvhy this disease is so general that any- 

 horse is hardly known to escape ; they are 

 even subject to it at all times of life ; but the 

 periods of attack are mostly when rising 

 three y four, oy Jive years old. Soleysell 

 and Gibson vainly conceived they threw 

 great liglit upon the subject, by comparing 

 it to the small-pox, " because/' say they, 

 ^' young horses are generally its subjects," 

 '' For," says Gibson, " the blood of young 

 ^' horses may reasonably enough be suppos- 

 ^* ed unequally fluid, having not as yet beea 

 *^ sufficiently comminuted by frequent circiL'^ 



