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will be necessary to call in the aid of a practical 

 veterinary surgeon, as an operation must be had 

 recourse to which can only be performed by an 

 experienced and practical veterinary surgeon. 

 Strangles seem incidental to the horse in all 

 countries, and foreign veterinary surgeons con- 

 ceived the idea of inoculating to produce a 

 milder degree of this disease, which they per- 

 formed with either part of the discharge of the 

 nostrils or matter from the tumour; in many 

 cases this had a most beneficial result, being both 

 shorter in its duration and milder in its results, 

 but English practitioners seem to entirely neglect 

 this. 



CANKER IN THE MOUTH. 



It is but a too common occurrence for the 

 mouth of a horse to become wounded by the bit, 

 which may be too acute at its edges or fit badly, 

 and often, I am sorry to say, by rough usage 

 from both groom and master. It is no uncom- 

 mon occurrence to see a so-called gentleman, if 

 his horse is a little skittish, pull at its mouth 

 with a sharp bit with sudden jerks, or saw its 

 mouth from side to side with a sharp twisted 

 bit; this treatment frequently wounds deeply, 

 especially between the grinders and tusk where 

 the bit rests, and it is no uncommon occurrence 

 for the entire flesh to be torn off. The writer 

 has had cases where the jawbone has been in- 



