CHAP. III.] REPLETION IN YOUTH I FULL HABIT. 351 



appears to entertain correct notions, we had already 

 anticipated him by several years, as the reader may 

 perceive at pages 75 — 78, which is a part of this 

 volume that appeared in the Annals of Sporting for 



1822. 



THE STRANGLES. 



The Strangles, as the name imports, is first in- 

 dicated by a coughing and difficulty of swallowing, 

 as if the animal would die of strangulation. It is 

 a disorder of youth (like our hooping cough), is in- 

 herent to the nature of the animal (as is our small- 

 pox) once only, and its virulence may be abated by 

 inoculation, whereby we choose a favourable period 

 for meeting the inevitable attack, after duly pre- 

 paring the patient. 



Cause. — Repletion of the system of life, and the 

 deposite of coagulable lymph in the glands under 

 the jaw ; which failing to be taken up and recon- 

 veyed back again into the system by absorption, 

 the glands become inflamed, swell, and burst, the 

 discharge of the offensive matter being the cure. 

 It maybe considered a critical disease, and treated 

 as such, by encouraging the formation of matter, 

 and assisting nature in throwing off a something 

 that is evidently obnoxious to the -constitution. 

 Indeed, we have never heard of any other practice ; 

 the impertinent attempts at repression, so frequently 

 adopted at the request of proprietors in other cases 

 of tumour, never having extended itself to this. 

 Strangles, strictly speaking, are incident to the 



