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drachm to a drachm and a half, combined with gentian 

 and other vegetable tonics, and given once a day. The 

 ointment of iodine has also been rubbed on the corded 

 swellings with advantage : but of all these prepara- 

 tions one drachm of the iodide of lead mingled with one 

 ounce of simple ointment may for external use be 

 employed with the greatest advantage. 



CHAPTER XII. 



INFLAMMATION AND SUPPURATION OF THE CEL- 

 LULAR SUBSTANCE UNDER THE JAW STRANGLES. 



Strangles is a disease from which few young and 

 stabled horses escape. 



At some time, usually between the third and fifth 

 year, the colt will be out of condition and spirit, and 

 have a slight husky cough ; the appetite will fail ; there 

 will be occasional discharge from the nose, and weep- 

 ing from the eyes; he may continue in this state for 

 several days, or even during some weeks; not de- 

 cidedly ill, but evidently far from well. The horse- 

 man, when he sees a young animal thus affected, says 

 that the colt is " breeding the strangles," and he is 

 generally correct in his assertion. 



The owner suspects the real nature of the disease 

 on account of the age of the animal ; the appearance 

 of some purulent matter with the discharge from the 

 nose, and sometimes a drivelling of thickened, ropy 

 saliva from the mouth ; the continuance of the fever 

 after the nasal discharge has fairly set in; cough, 



