50 TERMINATIONS OF INFLAMMATION. 



my experience before the pus has come into contact with the 

 atmosphere, and they will depend upon the seat of the second- 

 ary purulent collections. In the human patient the symptoms 

 are very characteristic ; in addition to others, the breath has a 

 smell of new-made hay, and the skin, especially by the side of 

 the nose, and about the eyebrows, becomes yellow ; but in the 

 horse these are not recognisable. In one case of purulent 

 infiltration into the lungs succeeding strangles, I did think 

 that the smell of new hay was present; but it was soon 

 succeeded by a most offensive odour of decomposing animal 

 matter. I think the most prominent and characteristic sign 

 is a total loss of appetite, or an apparent loathing of food, 

 associated with occasional colicky pains when the abscesses are 

 in the mesentery; with symptoms of pneumonia and foetid 

 breath when in the lungs, and yellowness of the mucous mem- 

 branes when in the liver. The animal's head is held low and 

 drooping, the countenance is sunken and cadaverous looking, 

 and the body generally emaciated. 



Haycock describes it as phlebitis, and it appears that in his 

 case inflammation of the veins was present ; but it by no means 

 follows tliat this is always the case. I have made careful ex- 

 aminations of several, and found this condition sometimes pre- 

 sent, sometimes absent. 



As regards treatment, I know of none that can arrest the 

 progress of the disease when it has set in ; all that can be done 

 is to be careful that the surroundings of a case of strangles are 

 healthy, specially avoiding bad drainage and bad ventilation. 

 "When I was in practice at Bradfoixl, in Yorkshire, nearly every 

 case of strangles which occurred near the Bradford Beck (brook 

 or rivulet) and Canal proved fatal, pyremia supervening ; this 

 fatal result could only be accounted for by the putridity of the 

 water, both in the canal and the beck, and by the exhalations 

 from them having found their way into the stables in their 

 neighbourhood, and set up a septic fermentation in the pus 

 when exposed to their contaminating influence. 



If the secondary abscesses form near the surface of the body, 

 as in the groin or subscapular region, they must be opened, 

 and in all cases the animal must be supported with tonics, 

 good food, milk, eggs, wine, beer, quinine, and small doses of 

 tiie chlorate of potash; but should the lymphatics become 



