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does not have the Strangles, he is generally considered 

 in great danger ; and this opinion is even maintained 

 by many persons in the profession. 



" M. Rodet, dissatisfied with this vague account, has 

 made experiments which throw great hght upon the 

 subject, and has proved the absurdity of the vulgar 

 opinion. He considers the Strangles as an inflamma- 

 tion of the throat, which differs in no respect from 

 many other affections of those parts known under 

 different names. 



" This author, who admits nothing which experience 

 has not sanctioned, meets the advocates of the innate 

 causes of Strangles with the following fact, which re- 

 futes them completely : — 



" The horses of warm countries, such as Arabia, the 

 coast of Africa, Spain, and even Italy, never have 

 Strangles, a disease known only in the middle and 

 northern parts of Europe. Now have we not a right 

 to ask, by what privilege the horses of the South are 

 preserved from Strangles, if this aflection were solely 

 to be attributed to the existence of a particular poison ? 

 And also, why Barbary horses (we cite them as an ex- 

 ample), are less sickly and more vigorous than those 

 of our own country, as they do not go through that 

 purification, that cleansing, which is here considered 

 so indispensable to the health of our horses ? 



" The inflammation called Strangles, cannot be 

 attributed to an innate poison which circu lates in the 

 blood from the birth of the animal ; and it is not the 

 eflfect of any single cause; it is referable, according to 

 M. Rodet— 



*' 1. To the disturbance of the second dentition, 

 which takes place between the age of three and five, 

 and is sufficiently painful to cause an increar ed action, 

 more or less, of all the neighbouring parts 



