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often as needful to keep it clean, and where the healing is rather 

 tardy or seemingly not proceeding in a healthy manner, to 

 touch the raw surfaces with a little nitrate of silver daily. 



During the entire course of the fever, and while the abscess 

 is maturing, it will be very needful that we should give close 

 attention to the dietary of the animal, so that should more 

 serious results follow, the bowels in particular may not be 

 found confined. 



With this end in view, allow scalded oats, with bran, twice 

 or thrice daily, adding to this once daily from one to four 

 ounces of good linseed oil, or double these quantities of 

 treacle. Give the hay picked, good, and in small quantities. 

 Where green food, as grass or vetches, can be obtained, it is 

 in moderation preferable to aught else, while where dry 

 fodder is alone to be relied upon, it may be usefully supple- 

 mented with a few sliced roots. 



During recovery, even in the simple and mild cases, when 

 we find that health and vigour are not returning so rapidly 

 as we would desire, a trifling amount of exercise in the open 

 air, and the administration of such tonics as preparations of 

 iron, quinine, or arsenic, are always deserving of a trial. 



The more severe and dangerous cases of malignant or 

 irregular strangles must be treated upon the same general 

 principles. Avoid all depressing and debilitating influences ; 

 ensure the animal's being benefited by good dieting and 

 wholesome surrounding sanitary conditions. Where local 

 inflammations and swellings indicate the probability of pus- 

 formation, treat as advised in like conditions under the simple 

 form, always remembering that heat and moisture favour the 

 maturation of abscesses, and that as soon as such is complete, 

 but not till then, give every facility for the escape of contained 

 material. W^here debility and exhaustion are marked con- 

 stitutional features, which they almost invariably are in these 

 forms, a certain amount of stimulation will be necessary so 

 as to enable the creature to tide over the crisis of the disease. 



During the formation of the abscesses and continuance of 

 the fever, although forcible administration of nutriment, when- 

 ever an animal refuses to take what we regard as a sufliciency 

 of food, is not to be recommended, it will be found that here 

 a large number imperatively demand it. 



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