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which that membrane invests to the glands, the Imigs, 



and even to the stomach. 



"2. That bleeding, aided by other antiphlogistic 



means, to which is joined the use of the most active 



counter-irritants, constitutes the proper treatment of 



Strangles. 



"3. That bleeding, employed without the auxiliaries 



in question, may certainly have the bad consequences 



which have been attributed to it by ignorant people." 

 Respecting some of the opinions here stated, many 

 practitioners agree, others again differ ; especially 

 in the doctrine of copious and frequent bleeding. 



The true Strangles generally occur where the 

 animals are well fed, in a good condition, and when 

 they are consequently healthier and stronger, than in 

 those cases when they are ill-conditioned, badly kept 

 and fed, much exposed to wet and cold, all of which 

 are the incentives to the other form of the disease, 

 called false or bastard strangles, which species, not 

 unfrequently, will terminate in Glanders or Farcy. 



Symptoms. — ^The eyes appear dull and languid; a 

 cough and soreness of the throat, accompanied with a 

 slight fever. The throat between the broadest part of 

 the two lower jaws become swelled, especially the 

 glands : occasionally, an abscess is found in those 

 parts. The pulse is quicker than usual ; after the di- 

 sease has continued a few days, a discharge from the 

 nostrils, and sometimes from the mouth, succeeds, 

 when he animal requires the greatest care. 



Tnatment. — ^When the true form of the disease ap- 

 pears, which, as I have said before, oftener occurs in 

 well-conditioned horses, the system may be very pro- 

 perly reduced by bleeding, but not to prevent suppu- 



