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stake, as it is well known that the reception of giandered 

 matter in the slightest scratch or ahrasion of the skin is 

 almost certain to terminate fatally. 



Although the difference between cold, strangles, and 

 glanders is sufficiently marked to be generally distin- 

 guished, yet no description of them will render it safe for 

 the uninitiated to decide with certainty which disease it is. 



The best plan is to put alone by themselves all horses 

 afflicted with strangles or severe cold in the head, par- 

 ticularly if they have been recently purchased; this will, 

 at all events, prevent any chance of glanders, if present, 

 being communicated to the other horses. 

 . It is hardly necessa^*^' to add that a giandered horse is 



Unsound. 



BASTARD-STRANGLES, OR VIVES. 



AVhen a horse has not had the strangles at the usual 

 time, that is, generally, between the second and fourth 

 year, he is fre([uently attacked by this disease, being in 

 fact the strangles delayed till a later period of life than 

 usual: Vives really meaning a revival of the attack, 

 which is frequently called by old farriers, bastard- 

 strangles, or vives, and wliich is a more obstinate com- 

 plaint than true strangles. 



Vives is not often, in itself, fatal, nor difficult to cure, 

 if attended to without delay; but, if neglected, it is often 

 followed by very serious results, such as broken-wind, or 

 even glanders; it is originated by a severe cold too long 

 neglected. 



The accompanying cough is more violent than that in 

 strangles. 



A horse laboring under vives or bastard-strangles is 



Unsound. 



Should you have bought the horse with an expressed 



