100 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



they stop the Strangles on their horses by bleeding 

 them when it shows itself, and attribute all the com- 

 plaint which may afterwards occur to the Strangles re- 

 pelled or badly thrown out. 



" M. Rodet has not admitted any of these evidently 

 erroneous opinions ; he treats the Strangles by the an- 

 tiphlogistic plan, in which bleeding is a principal agent, 

 by powerful counter-irritation, (setons, blisters, &c.). 

 The success which he has met with in this rational 

 plan has been very great, as may be seen in his essay, 

 which contains the history of twenty-two cases treated 

 on this plan, twenty of which were successful ; to the 

 other two he was called too late, and in them he re- 

 marked a complication of symptoms. The author in- 

 quires, upon what this generally-received opinion is 

 founded — that stopping the Strangles, and the non- 

 expulsion of the supposed virus, can have injurious 

 effects ? He observes, that dealers who have horses 

 on the point of showing the Strangles, disperse the 

 first symptoms of it by repeated bleedings, which check 

 the inflammation ; but they do not follow up the bleed- 

 ing by any additional means to render its effect dura- 

 ble ; and besides, they continue to keep the animals 

 under the influence of the causes which first produced 

 it. It results, that inflammation, imperfectly treated, 

 recurs again after a time and gives rise to diseases of 

 more or less importance, which ought to be attributed 

 to this bad treatment, and not to the bleeding, which 

 is good, and the most useful remedy in our power. 



" M. Rodet concludes, from the observations in this 

 essay — 



" 1. That the Strangles, far from being an affection 

 sui generis, is truly an inflammation of the mucous 

 membrane of the mouth, nostrils, larynx, trachea, &c ; 

 it may extend, by continuity or sympathy, to the tissues 



