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peculiar disease. Sometimes it will break out, 

 seemingly sporadically, on one farm, attack the 

 young horses on it and die out without farther 

 invasion of neighboring properties. At other 

 times it will take a whole countryside at a 

 sweep. When a colt is coming down with 

 strangles, he coughs huskily, his throat is sore, 

 and he has some difficulty in swallowing. He 

 sticks his head out and sometimes there is con- 

 siderable fever and sometimes very little. Some- 

 times the afflicted animal will keep on eating 

 and sometimes he will refuse all food. Later 

 there comes a swelling between the jaws which 

 in time will burst and relief will then follow. 

 Irregular strangles exists when abscesses form 

 in parts of the body other than between the 

 jaws. In such cases there is much danger of 

 blood poisoning. In all instances summon the 

 practitioner and let him treat each case as its 

 needs indicate. As a rule good nursing, keeping 

 the patient comfortable, the administration of 

 stimulants and coaxing the appetite to the limit 

 will do more than medication, though it takes 

 the veterinarian usually to say when medicine 

 should or should not be given. Purgatives 

 should never be administered to colts suffering 

 from strangles. 



Worms are often troublesome to both colts 

 and horses. Many veterinarians use turpentine 

 in two-ounce doses administered in half a pint 

 of linseed oil, the horse having been fasted for 



