Chap. XXIX. Of the Strangles', 109 



fy ; its Seat is not fo much upon the Glands as on the 

 Mufcles, and therefore it comes the more readily to an Im- 

 pofthumation ; neither is there fo much danger in Horfes 

 as in human Bodies, becaufe in a true Quinfy the Mufcles 

 of the Larynx^ or Throttle, are for the moft Part affected ; 

 whereas in the Strangles, the Mufcles of the Tongue feem 

 only to be touch'd, and therefore the Difeafe comes natu- 

 rally to have an external or outward Difcharge. 



Young Horfes are moft liable to this Dif- q ^ , 

 temper, and for that Reafon the Sieur de the Small pox 

 SoUeyfell compares it to the Small- pox, and ly Solleyfell. 

 has obferv'd, that few Horfes are troubled 

 with it above once, unlefs the Matter of the Strangles has 

 been imperfedly caft off, and then he fays it generally 

 returns when they are about the Age of fix, ten, or twelve ; 

 he farther takes Notice, that the Matter fometimes cafts 

 itfelf off from the Limbs, and other Parts of the Body, 

 efpecially from thofe Members that have been any ways 

 hurt or weaken'd. 



It has been a Lofs to that Author, who was fo diligent 

 an Obferver of all manner of Accidents incident to Horfes, 

 that he was not better acquainted with their inward 

 Structure and Make, othcrwife his Notices might have 

 turn'd much more to his and the Reader's Account ; for 

 although this Diftemper be near ally'd to an external 

 Quinfy, as to its Situation, and alfo in many other Re- 

 fpecls ; yet no doubt, as it moftly happens to young 

 Horfes, it may therefore, in its Effedts, alfo bear an Affi- 

 nity to the Small-pox. 



For as the Blood of young Horfes may reafonably enough 

 be fuppos'd unequally fluid, having not as yet been fuffi- 

 ciently comminuted by frequent Circulations ; therefore, 

 while they are in this imperfect State, they are render'd 

 liable to Difeafes, as we have already taken Notice in an- 

 other Place ; and when thefe happen, they fufe and melt 

 the Blood, or purify it from its Vifcidities and grofl'er 

 Parts, by fome Difcharges, which are anfwerable to the 

 Small-pox in human Bodies. But as the Small-pox breaks 

 out in little Puftules all over the Skin, where-ever the Veffels 

 are the fmalleft, and where the Blood muft of Confequence 

 be moft apt to ftagnate; yet becaufe the Blood-^vellels in 

 Horfes are confiderably thicker and ftronger than in human 

 Bodies, therefore thefe Impurities cannot fo readily be dif- 

 charg'd in that Mannerj but fall out into Biles and Swellings 



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