STRANGLES. 151 



A young blood horse, the property of Captain Bulkeley, 

 and purchased from Sir Wat. Wynne's sale, at Tattersall's, was 

 brought to me in June, 1847 (at Windsor), with a tumour 

 at the lower part of the neck, which was perfectly solid 

 to the feel ; uniform and smooth upon its surface ; with its 

 circumference extending around into the adjacent cellular 

 tissue — having, in fact, all the character of strangles ; 

 though there was no sign of constitutional irritation or fever 

 accompanying it. Still, from its character — and from there 

 being no trace of injury ; but from its being thought " a 

 sting " — there was, I imagined, good reason for supposing 

 the disease to be strangles. It proved an abscess ; was opened ; 

 and discharged a pint or more of pus. 



(Vide ^'Irregular Strangles,^' in John Field's cases, p. 28. 

 Also see Retrocedent Strangles in remarks by myself at the 

 end of a case by Mr. Cooper, V.S., Erith. ' Veterinarian ' 

 for 1853.) 



What inclines me to think many horses, though they 

 undergo the fever of strangles, do not experience the local 

 disease, is because some of those admitted by us to have 

 strangles, only have it in the form of a swelling under the 

 jaw, neither bulky nor sensible, and which is often resolved 

 by a blister; and because out of the many young horses 

 which have passed under my medical superintendence, not 

 above one in four of them had undergone regular strangles, 

 though very many of them had sickened. I had a young 

 horse, whom I purchased of the breeder ; he never had 

 strangles, though he sickened three or four separate times. 



gave it some aperient and febrifuge medicine. I had it fed on soft meat; 

 watched it daily, to see which way the case would turn. At length, my atten- 

 tion was drawn to a swelling of the udder, which appeared as if distended with 

 milk. As soon as maturation was completed, I opened it, and two quarts of 

 thick, well-digested pus flowed from it. The mare rapidly recovered its health 

 and never ailed since. — The second is a case of more complicated character. 

 A four-year old mare was indisposed for some days ; at length inflammation of 

 the lungs appeared, which reduced it to such a state, that I had reUnqiiished 

 all hopes of the recovery. It did, however, recover; but had abscesses form 

 on the poll, withers, one elbow, and both hips, the maturation of which seemed 

 to restore health. 



