2g6 ON STRANGLES. 



human fpecies, giving of it, however, a very 

 lame and imperfeft account. Solleyfel Ilyles it 

 a northern difeafe, and compares it with the 

 fmall-pox, a? thofe before him had compared 

 it to the quinfey, and it no doubt bears ana- 

 logy, in many refpefts, with both difeafes. It 

 is one of thofe fpontaneous efforts of nature, 

 to difburthcn herfelf of a fuperflux of humours, 

 which is final, and does not recur ; as to the 

 viVES, to which aged horfes are fubjc61, they 

 either bear no relation to the flrangles, or this 

 latter diforder, in age, makes a different ap- 

 pearance. The matter of the ftrangles is con- 

 tagious in a certain degree, fince a country far- 

 rier propagated the difeafe by innoculation, and 

 wrote a pamphlet to recommend fuch unne- 

 ceffary pra6lice. 



The authors to be confulted in this cafe, are 

 Gibfon and Bracken, all our other writers, 

 without referve, having merely copied them : 

 Thofe who may find it convenient " to fink 

 *•' a tedious hour in the ferious tafk of criti- 

 " cifm," may refer to Mr. Taplin on the 

 Strangles : where that moft unfortunate of cri- 

 tics, like a true Signior Apuntador, or Knight 

 of the Peftle, has fuppofed that comminuted 

 muft necelfarily and exclufively mean pulve- 

 rifed I 



Although the ftrangles commonly attacks 

 young horfes on their being firft brought to 



labour, 



