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the skin feels tight ; the pulse is accelerated ; the mouth 

 feels hot and dry, not in any way consistent with health. 

 It is probably cutting the corner incisors or the tushes at 

 the time.^ We hardly know what is amiss. We may sus- 

 pect it is " breeding the strangles.^^ After a while we 

 detect a tumour under the jaw ; we then assert the horse 

 has got the strangles. In other cases there appears a 

 discharge from the nose^ reddened membrane, sore throat, 

 and cough. The strangles supervene on these symptoms. 



The Submaxillary Tumour of strangles is double. Fre- 

 quently, its duplex nature is evident from their existing two 

 (equal) swellings; but, be this the case or not, the double 

 swelling, although it externally looks like one, is manifested 

 when we open the abscess, from the pus on either side not 

 flowing readily (through the cellular septum, the cause of 

 the duplicity) into the other side. 



The submaxillary tumour is often knotty and divided 

 in its appearance, as though the glands received the pri- 

 mary attack. Commonly, the disease is slow in its progress ; 

 though I have known it appear suddenly, and enlarge with 

 rapidity.^ As the swelling enlarges, it becomes diffused in 



' I have often remarked that strangles was an accompaniment of dentition. 

 Is there any connexion between them ? Hurtrel d'Arboval has made the same 

 observation, and does not hesitate to say there is. Taking this view of it, 

 Hurtrel d'Arboval repudiates the idea of horses having strangles but once in their 

 lives. Nor does he believe that all horses have it : on the contrary, he tells us 

 there are countries where the disease is unknown. 



2 I remember the case of a horse, belonging to the Artillery, which, within 

 twenty-four hours, had a tumour en the off-side of the submaxillary space the 

 size of a goose-egg. The animal being in the infirmary for catarrh, the circum- 

 stance was accurately noted. The tumour suppurated in the usual manner. — 

 November, 1835. A horse belonging to my own regiment was brought to 

 me with a very considerable swelling of the parotid gland, extending a short dis- 

 tance down the neck upon the jugular, and under the jaw. It was not per- 

 ceived before it had acquired its present magnitude, nor did it anywise impede 

 swallowing or breathing. I ordered the horse to lose from the ojff-side — the 

 one swollen — four quarts of l)lood, and to tak^, next morning, nine drachms of 

 purging mass, and be fomented all day. By the next morning, before the physic 

 was given, the swelling had totally disappeared. Might it not have been occa- 

 sioned by some stoppage of the salivary ducts ? and yet, it did not bear that 

 corded knotty character. 



