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will be formed: and that which is already formed 

 may be suffered to run out slowly, all pressure 

 with the fingers being avoided. The part should 

 be kept clean, and a little friar's balsam daily in- 

 jected into the wound. 



The remainder of the treatment will depend on 

 the symptoms. If there is much fever, and evi- 

 dent affection of the chest, and which should care- 

 fully be distinguished from the oppression and 

 choking occasioned by ihe pressure of the tumor, 

 it will be proper to bleed. In the majority of cases, 

 however, bleeding will not only be unnecessary, 

 but injurious. It will delay the suppuration of 

 the tumor, and increase the subsequent debility. 

 A few cooling medicines, as nitre, emetic tartar, 

 and perhaps digitalis, may be given, as the case 

 requires. The appetite, or rather the ability to 

 eat, will return with the opening of the abscess. 

 Bran-mashes, or fresh cut grass or tares, should 

 be liberally supplied, which will not only afford 

 sufficient nourishment to recruit the strength of 

 the animal, but keep the bowels gently open. If 

 the weakness be not great, no further medicine 

 will be wanted, except a dose of mild physic^ to 

 prevent the swellingsoreruptions which sometimes 

 succeed to strangles. In cases of debility, a small 

 quantity of tonic medicine, as camomile, and gen- 

 tian with ginger, in doses of a couple of drachms, 

 may be administered. 



Vives. 



A disease in horses, which differs from the 

 strangles only in this, that the swellings of the 

 kernels under the ears of the horse (which are 

 the parts at first chiefly affected) seldom gather 



