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Symptoms. — As a general rule this disorder comes on 

 slowly; there is general indisposition, the animal is out of 

 condition. In a few days there is stiffness about the neck ; 

 it is suspected the animal is "breeding strangles;" there 

 may be a sore throat and a cough. As the fever heightens 

 there is a discharge of a thick yellow muco-purulent matter 

 from the nostrils, and some difficulty in breathing. By this 

 time the appetite is lost. The pulse increases to 50 or 60 

 beats per minute. The respiration and temperature are also 

 increased. 



Soon there is noticed an enlargement under the jaw, which 

 may extend to the parotid glands ; it is very hard, hot, and 

 tender. When these parts are examined there is usually 

 found a hard, inflammatory tumor in the sub-cutaneous 

 cellular tissue between the branches of the lower jaw. 



When this is the history of the case it is progressing very 

 favorably. If in eight or ten days the tumor softens and its 

 contents escape, the crisis of the disorder and the danger is 

 past. But should the disease take an irregular form, as often 

 it does, and the tumor not form, or go back and reappear 

 somewhere else, or if it does not suppurate properly, or 

 should it form on the inside of the thigh, under the shoulder 

 blade, or, worst of all, form on some of the internal organs, 

 these are complications to be dreaded, as some fatal result 

 may follow. This state of things may be suspected when 

 the time has past for the formation of the tumor in the 

 ordinary place. Then there is wasting and prostration of 

 strength, with derangement either of the digestive or respi- 

 ratory organs. 



Treatment. — The indications for treatment in these 

 diseases is to use such means as shall conduct them to a 

 safe termination. Any measures that arrest or put back the 

 course of the disorder is to be avoided, therefore no blood- 

 letting, or physic, or such medicines as aconite, opium, &c., 

 are to be used. The great object to be gained is the healthy 

 maturing of the tumor in its right place. Good nursing is 



