232 TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



CLASS IV. 



STRANGLES. 



Strangles occur between the age of one and 

 five, oftenest about three. There are three 

 kinds of it. Strangle fever, without any abscess ; 

 true strangles with the abscess under the jaw ; 

 and bastard strangles, when the abscess bursts 

 inwardly ; but they are not so common in India 

 as in England. 



Si/mptoms, — A slight fever, dulness, and dis- 

 inclination to eat or drink occasionally comes 

 over colts at two or three years old, either 

 with, or without any cold, which keeps them 

 weak and sickly for some weeks ; and no abscess 

 forming in the channel to mark the complaint, 

 we are at a loss to account for the ailing: it 

 may possibly be the strangle-fever. When an 

 abscess forms in the channel under the jaws, 

 then he has the true strangles ; and it is most 

 desirable that it should form, ripen, and be dis- 

 charged ; for the constitution is then said to be 

 renovated by it. There is- always a nasty dis- 



