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CHAPTER IX. 



Strangles — Megrims — Staggers — The pulse — Colic — Broken-wind— 

 Testing wind of a horse — Worms — Physic — Crib-biting and wind- 

 sucking — Jaundice — The kidneys— Sprain of back tendons — 

 Swelled legs— Mallenders and sallenders — Curb — Cow-hocks— 

 Stringhalt — Capped-hock — Blood spavin and bog spavin — Bone 

 spavin — Splint — Ring-bone — Navicular disease — Corns — The frog 

 — Thrush — Hints to the blacksmith — Grease — Cracked-heels — 

 Sagacity and intelligence of horses — The New York Fire Brigade 

 — Mr. Crocker's educated horses. 



Strangles is a disease which all young horses are 

 bound to have at some period or other, and this period 

 is, generally speaking, betvveen the age of four and 

 five, and most frequently in the spring. The first in- 

 dication of the complaint is a cough, which is followed, 

 as is usually the case in a horse with a cough, by a 

 discharge from the nostrils. In strangles this discharge 

 is excessive, of a yellowish colour, mixed with matter, 

 but generally free from any offensive smell. There is 

 also a considerable discharge of a ropy fluid from the 

 mouth, and the glands of the throat become also very 

 much swollen. This swelling increases with variable 

 rapidity, and is accompanied by a certain amount of 

 fever and a general disinclination for food, partly 

 arising from the fever, but chiefly by reason of the 

 pain which is experienced in the act of chewing or 

 swallowing. There is also a great deal of thirst, but 



