35S STRANGLES — OF THE GULLET ; [BOOK II. 



Inoculation for the strangles has been recom- 

 mended above, and was partially practised. About 

 1802, M. La Fosse, the younger, mentioned the 

 affair in his Manuel d'Hippiatrique, which book we 

 translated into English the following year, and we 

 latterly hear that two or three country practitioners 

 in England afterwards adopted the suggestion, but 

 they ought not to lay claim to any admiration on 

 such an account, at least not beyond their own 

 circles. The method was merely to scratch the in- 

 side of the nostril, and then smearing the sore with 

 matter from the abscess of a diseased horse — it 

 never failed. In careful hands the practice was 

 feasible enough ; but great danger would accompany 

 this imitation of variolous inoculation, inasmuch as 

 the matter might likewise convey a disposition to 

 farcy or glanders. 



Strangles of the gullet. Sometimes we find 

 those symptoms of strangles reduced to one only, 

 viz. an obstinate running at the nose, which usually 

 lasts a long while, and occasionally ends fatally, by 

 the animal wasting away in pulmonary consumption, 

 as we hear from good authority, but we never wit- 

 nessed such a termination of this species of stran- 

 gles, which La Fosse calls " strangles of the gul- 

 let." Many people mistake this disorder for glan- 

 ders, but it may be distinguished from that conta- 

 gion by a rattling in the gullet, whence its French 

 name ; also, by the quality of the running, which 

 is neither so white nor of so much consistency as 

 the true sort, but watery and curdled. The animal 

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