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tiou failed to detect any disease other than general emaciation. 

 On making inquiries concerning the food, the owner replied, " The 

 edit has been fed on good sweet hay and corn-stalks ever since it 

 was weaned." This was capital food for the poor thing, provided, 

 however, its stomach had a grist-mill within it ; otherwise, it was 

 hard fare, and must derange the digestive function, and, ere tb.8 

 colt has attained maturity, dyspepsia, in either a mild or aggra- 

 vated form, has secured a victim. 



Mr. Percivall has defined strangles to be "a diffusible swell- 

 ing under the iaw. The tumor consists in a circumscribed inflam- 

 mation, having all the characteristics of simple phlegmon, attack- 

 ing the subcutaneous cellular substance included between the 

 branches of the jaw, which, in consequence, become gradually 

 filled and distended with effusions of lymphy and serous matters, 

 acquires a firm and solid feel, tenderness on pressure, and a sense 

 of unnatural heat. This commonly proceeds to suppuration, end- 

 ing, to all appearances, in a common submaxillary abscess. Now, 

 this, and this alone, constitutes strangles. There are in the oooks 

 a variety of other symptoms described, but they are all concomi- 

 tant or accidental, none but these being, properly speaking, essen- 

 tial to its existence. The usual concomitants are, membranous 

 inflammation, giving rise to soreness about the throat ; reddening 

 and discharge at the nose, and perhaps cough ; tumefaction of the 

 salivary glands, producing pain and difficulty of deglutition; and, 

 lastly, some slight febrile commotion of the system." 



Contagiousness of Strangles. — We learn from the "Veterina- 

 rian" that M. Reynal, clinical professor at the Alfort School, 

 submits a number of observations corroborative of the contagious 

 character of strangles. He states that "young horses having 

 strangles, and put into stables with horses of adult age, doing 

 their duty, have communicated the disease to those of the latter, 

 who have ^tood in adjoining stalls, though some few have onlj 

 exhibited the disease in a catarrhal form. Even the foal has been 

 known to suck the disease from its dam. Moreover, experiment 

 has been had recourse to -to inoculate for strangles. M, Damalix 

 smeared with a sponge, impregnated with matter taken from the 

 abscess of strangles, twice daily, both sides of the pituitary mem- 

 brane and the internal surfaces of the linings of the eyelids, in a 

 Bound horse, about to be cast for spavin. This was continued for 

 :-*even days. On the eighth, he remarked that the horsp had lost 



