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and put into a nose-bag, boiling water poured 

 upon it, and then put upon the horse's head ; when it 

 begins to get cool the bag should be immersed again in 

 hot water to keep up the steam. In slight cases the fol- 

 lowing may be found to be all that is necessary to effect 

 a cure : — One ounce of sulphate of copper made into a 

 ball with linseed meal and treacle, twice a day. This 

 disease, although discharging a quantity of mucous and 

 pus, is neither infectious nor contagious, although if left 

 unattended to it may assume in a secondary stage a 

 serious aspect. 



STRANGLES. 



This disease is incidental to all horses in their youth, 

 and indeed looked upon as a baby's complaint. It attacks 

 the colt generally between the age of two and three years, 

 though sometimes the colt may escape until it is four or 

 even five years old ; in some few cases old horses will 

 have it, when it is very difficult to cure. High-fed colts 

 generally have it sooner than those which are fed upon a 

 lower diet. Neither the remote nor the approximate 

 cause of this complaint is known. It appears to be in 

 some degree analogous to the small-pox in the human 

 being, and the colt having passed through it, the consti- 

 tution seems to have undergone a purification and im- 

 provement. In some instances it has affected the animal 

 in so mild a form that it has passed through its various 

 stages, and gone off without much inconvenience to it, 

 or any remedial moans being employed. Contagion 

 seems to have nothing to do with this disorder ; every 

 horse has this complaint once in its life and only once. 



