54 THEORY AND PRACTICE 



treated, the guaiacol mixture with a fly blister on the outside, is 

 good treatment. 



Hygiene. — Keep the horse on a grass diet or at any rate on 

 soft feed. 



Paralysis of the Throat Following Laryngo-Pharyngitis. — 

 This is a very pecuHar condition ; it is a wasting of the soft 

 tissues of the throat. The skin is drawn tightly over the atlas, 

 and the outline of the hyoid bone can be seen. The neck looks 

 like a skeleton covered with skin. There is paralysis of the 

 muscles of deglutition, difficult swallowing, persistent coughing 

 and the food and water come back through the nose. The horse 

 runs down in flesh, is weak, and the case becomes chronic. This 

 disease is liable to occur any time, but it does not occur often. 



Prognosis. — The prognosis is usually favorable if thorough 

 treatment is carried out. 



Treatment. — Apply a fly blister to the outside of the thrOat, 

 and repeat 5-6 times a month apart, being very careful not to 

 blemish the skin. Put the animal on iodide of potash and strych- 

 nine. Give a grain of strychnine with 1 dram of iodide of potash 

 in two ounces of water 3 times a day for 2-6 months. The cases 

 all recover. 



QUINSY. 



In the human, quinsy is inflammation of the tonsils in which 

 abscesses form. But horses have no tonsils, and consequently 

 they do not have typical quinsy. Pigs, however, can have 

 quinsy, for they have tonsils. But in the horse, abscesses gather 

 occasionally in the lymph glands about the throat as a result of 

 laryngo-pharyngitis. We get quinsy also in some cases of 

 strangles. Pus may gather in the guttural pouches — in one or in 

 both — and becoming confined there, produce pressure and dysp- 

 noea. 



Etiology. — Quinsy is always secondary to severe inflamma- 

 tion of the throat. When it comes with strangles, it is easy 

 enough to account for it. but in the other cases it is not always 

 understood. These abscesses, however, probably always follow 

 some local inflammation. 



