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and a half old, and in which the disease manifested itself after 

 signs of ill-health that had continued for several weeks 

 without our conjecturing what was amiss with the animal. 



Lieutenant Hogg's second charger, a horse he purchased 

 of Anderson, Piccadilly, had, subsequently, strangles; sicken- 

 ing with it, and giving every evidence of its being the 

 genuine disease. 



C 27, a mare (with short quarters and goose rump), six 

 years old at the time of purchase, in February ensuing had 

 abscess under the throat, following cough, in all respects 

 similar to strangles. I saw the mare did not anywise sicken 

 with it, and that the tumour was confined to the ofiP side of the 

 submaxillary gland. If this was not true, it must have been 

 bastard strangles. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, on seeing 

 this mare, and being told her disease was " strangles,^' replied, 

 " No such thing ! Six year old horses never have strangles /'' 



B 28, that is six years old in less than five weeks' time, 

 has now genuine strangles appearing. 



Causes. — Along with other aff'ections, strangles are gene- 

 rally the consequences of domestication. In saying this, 

 however, nothing is really advanced. We are not suffi- 

 ciently acquainted with wild horses to point out the diseases 

 to which these animals are liable. Neither is strangles 

 always the result of entering the stables ; colts when at grass 

 will exhibit the disorder; young horses which have never 

 been under the roof of a stable do not unfrequently exemplify 

 strangles. Still there are many statements on record which 

 seem to favour the notion that strangles is the result of 

 domestication. The seeds of disease appear by the change 

 to be matured. How all this is brought about, or what is 

 the nature of the disorder, we are, and probably ever shall 

 remain, in total ignorance. 



Symptoms. — Strangles being promoted by the causes 

 that excite nasal inflammation, it often happens the disease 

 is ushered in by catarrhal symptoms; though, in other 

 cases, we are forewarned of its approach only by the fever- 

 ish state of the animal. The horse is dull; pickish in 

 its appetite ; coughs now and then ; the coat looks rough ; 



