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occasionally extends to those glands at the back of the jaw bones, 

 ■when the swelling is diflfused and the whole head is affected. 



Treatment. — Isolate into a large, airy box, free from draughts 

 of cold wind: keep body warmly clothed and legs bandaged with 

 flanuels; food nourishing but sloppy; crushed oats well steamed, 

 mixed with boiled linseed; a plentiful supply of barley water made 

 with psarl barley in the ordinary way. 



Local applications should consist of well prepared poultices of 

 li-.iseed meal, or boiling water poured over spent hops, either of 

 which should be enclosed in a gauze bag to fit the parts, covered 

 w :th a piece of oilskin over which and to support the poultice a por- 

 ti )n of horse rug or several thicknesses of close house flannel should 

 bo used. The poultices should not be allowed to get cold, and 

 should be changed three times in twentj'-four hours. The change 

 should be effected rapidly, but before applying a fresh poultice 

 the parts should be gently bathed with hot water containing a few 

 drops of Condy's Fluid, so that the parts ma}- be kept sweet and 

 clean. 



By the aid of internal medicines three or four days will generally 

 serve to mature the abscess, which will be recognized as ripe by 

 its softness, when it may be left to discharge itself or be opened; 

 unless a veterinar}'- surgeon is at hand to advise, the former is the 

 safer course from all points of view; if allowed to spontaneously 

 discharge, as soon as it has burst, the whole abscess should be 

 gentl)^ squeezed and thereafter washed clean with a soft sponge 

 and hot water medicated with Condy's Fluid; after which poultic- 

 ing should be continued until the whole of the matter is discharged; 

 and to complete the cure the parts should be dressed with 

 powdered Iodoform and still kept covered up with medicated dry 

 cotton wool until the orifice is healed. 



Interxai, Treatment. — In the first instance, while the 

 fever is developing and the temperature rising Aconite jx for one 

 day; to be followed by Hcpar, sulphur 6x ten grains dry on the 

 tongue four times a day at intervals of four hours. This is all 

 that will be required for simple or benign strangles, but should 

 the more dangerous symptoms be developed already referred to, 

 and fresh swellings containing matter (pus), spring up over the 

 body, which are suggestive of blood poisoning a change in the 

 remedy nmst ])e made; and not improbably the animal will give 

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