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bran mashes and a little dried green food : after that, 

 as it is the real epidemic, liberally on gram-flour gruel 

 three quarts, three times a-day boiled gram with 

 bran mash, boiled carrots, fresh lucern, &e., and also 

 thin gruel for drink not water. Continue this for a 

 week or ten days, when improvement or death will 

 most probably have taken place ; if the former, lessen 

 the medicine daily, and be careful to keep the bowels 

 open with clysters. 



CLASS IV. 



STRANGLES. 



Strangles occur between the age of one and five, 

 offcenest about three. There are three kinds of it t 

 Strangle fever, -without any abscess ; true strangles 

 with the abscess under the jaw ; and bastard strangles, 

 when the abscess bursts inwardly ; but they are not 

 so common in India as in England. * 



Symptoms. A slight fever, dulness, and disinclin- 

 ation to eat or drink occasionally comes over colts at 

 two or three years old, either with, or without any 

 cold, which keeps them weak and sickly for some 

 weeks ; and no abscess forming in the channel to mark 

 the complaint, we are at a loss to account for the ail- 

 ing : it may possibly be the strangle-fever. When an 

 abscess forms in the channel under the jaws, then he 

 has the true strangles ; and it is most desirable that it 

 should form, ripen, and be discharged ; for the con- 

 stitution is then said to be renovated by it. There is 



* All colts have strangles in India as well as in England. ED. 



