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colicy pains after eating, costiveuess, retracted, tender abdomen, 

 insensible loins, and groaning when rising, when walking down 

 a steep incline, or turning in a very narrow circle. These symp- 

 toms following an apparent or partial recovery from strangles are 

 significant, and rectal examination may detect a hard, tender 

 mass connected with the bowel or mesentery. 



If rupture takes place into the peritoneum there is general in- 

 fective inflammation of that structure with sudden access of fever, 

 marked prostration and an early death. In more favorable cases 

 its adhesion to the bowel or to the abdominal wall opens the way 

 for rupture into the gut or externally and there may be a slow 

 healing of the cavity by granulation. It may be a month or two 

 before such an abscess opens and for a length of time thereafter 

 the health is poor, and the animal lacking in condition and en- 

 durance. 



When the abscess is formed in the liver there is high fever with 

 shivering fits, irregularity of the bowels (bound up or loose), 

 dusky or yellowish hue of the visible mucosae, anorexia, followed 

 by peritoneal infection or pyaemia (secondary abscesses). 



Abscess of the pancreas or spleen is even less definite in symp- 

 toms. These may terminate in rupture and peritonitis, or the 

 splenic abscess may become chronic and indolent and in a measure 

 harmless. 



Perirenal Abscess is betrayed by specially sensitive loins, stiff- 

 ness and groaning in rising or in turning sharply on himself, 

 drooping of the back under a load, and by albuminous urine. In 

 a small animal the part may be reached and the tenderness ellici- 

 ted by handling. 



Cutaneous Symptoms in Strangles. Though by no means a 

 common form, strangles sometimes attacks the skin, more particu- 

 larly that of the face, head and neck, appearing in the form of 

 pustules or small abscesses, or it may be of a rounded nodular 

 elevation, which may disappear without forming either vesicle or 

 pustule. The points of election are around the lips, nose and 

 eyes, upon the mucosa inside the lips, along the line of the facial 

 lymphatics running toward the submaxillary gland, and at points 

 where there is special friction, as under the halter, collar, saddle, 

 crupper, in the hollow of the heel, under the tail, on the perineum, 

 in the groin and axilla. They may extend more or less up the 



