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The suppuration may be further promoted by steaming the head over warm 

 water, or fumigating it as follows: give him bran mashes frequently, placing 

 the vessel that contains this, well secured, in another vessel larger than the 

 first, into which much hotter water can be introduced, so that the vapour may 

 rise up all round the mash, and constantly envelop the head. When the 

 tumour is ascertained to be ripe, and not before, an opening is made at its most 

 depending part, and the matter expressed gently; wash it off clean with warm 

 water, and if the sore appear healthy, it will heal spontaneously, or witn the 

 application of adhesive plaster. 



Inoculation for the strangles has been recommended above and was par- 

 tially practised. About 1802, M. La Fosse, the younger, mentioned the af- 

 fair "in his Manuel d' Hippiatrique, which book I translated into English the 

 following year, and we hear that two or three country practitioners in En- 

 gland afterwards adopted the suggestion. The method was merely to scratch 

 the inside of the nostril, and then smearing the sore with matter from the ab- 

 scess of a diseased horse — it never failed. In careful hands the practice was 

 feasible enough ; but great danger would accompany this imitation of variolous 

 inoculation, inasmuch as the matter might Ukewise convey a disposition to 

 farcy or glanders. 



Strangles of the gullet. Sometimes we find those symptoms of 

 strangles reduced to one only, viz. an obstinate running at the nose, which 

 usually lasts a long while, and occasionally ends fatally, by the animal wast- 

 ing away in pulmonary consumption, as I am informed from good authority, 

 i ut never witnessed such a termination of this species of strangles, which La 

 Fosse calls "strangles of the gullet." Many people mistake this disorder for 

 glanders, but it may be distinguished from that contagion by a rattling in the 

 gullet, whence its French name ; also by the quality oi the running, whicii 

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