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that mostly attack young animals. Nevertheless it 

 sometimes attacks horses at an advanced age. Swell- 

 ings similar are common in shedding the teeth ; but they 

 are not the vives. In some respects this disorder bears 

 a near affinity to the strangleij. The cause of Yives 

 may be distinctly pronounced a *'cold," that prolific 

 source of many other disorders. 



Symptoms. — Svvellings under both ears, generally, 

 that occasion manifest pain when touched ; the animal 

 coughs more than one which has the strangles, and a 

 difficulty of swallowing soon becomes evident. Stiff- 

 ness or aridity of the neck follows, and the patient 

 makes frequent efforts to swallow the saliva, which it is 

 the proper function of these glands to secrete, but which 

 they are soon disabled from doing ; and as they now re- 

 fuse to perform this office, the watery humors flow from 

 out the animals eyes, which he partly closes ; inflam- 

 mation of the mouth and gums next takes place, produ- 

 cing the Mampers,' which are noticed separately, and fi- 

 nally they terminate in "strangles" and are to be treated 

 as such. But timely attention, 'tvill remove them before 

 they terminate in either the 'lampers' or ^strangles.' 



Remedy. — Foment the part with warm water, and af- 

 ter it has been well dried, clothe the head so as to keep 

 off the air, upon the principle of 'remove the cause and 

 the effect will cease.' Follow it up with fomentations 

 of marsh mallows, or annoint the parts with ointment of 

 marshmaiiows, and cover the head as before. A bread 

 poultice affords relief, and bleeding in stubborn cases of 

 simple vives is often necessary, with purgatives. In- 

 deed, the body should be opened, whether we bleed or 

 no : always leave open the main road for such humors 

 to escape by. To assist nature, however, employ the 

 following 



Lotion. — Sal ammoniac, half an ounce ; vinegar, 6 ounces ; Gou- 

 lard's extract, 1 ounce. Mix, and rub the parts well twice a day. 



Low diet, a plentiful supply of water gruel, and bran 

 mashes, to which an ounce of nitre may be added daily, 

 will reduce that thickened state of the blood which ever 

 attends these species of tumor. 



But when the vives are likely to supurate, all attempts 

 to drive them off through the system, as directed abovA, 

 must be avoided, and the direct contrary course must be 



