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scesses. They sometimes occur on the pleura and rupture into 

 the pleural cavity. 



Treatment. — Strangles must run its course — it cannot be 

 aborted. Rational treatment will help to produce a favorable ter- 

 mination. In this and every other febrile disease the patient 

 should be housed and kept warm. Let the food be laxative. 

 Crushed scalded oats and bran are good. Apply linseed poultices 

 to the abscesses to soften them and repeat the application night 

 and morning. Open the abscesses, do not let them rupture. They 

 should be opened 3 or 4 days after they start. Syringe them out 

 and still keep on the poultice. This will hasten the recovery. 

 After 2 or 3 days stop the poulticing but cover the sore part if 

 the weather necessitates it. If dyspnoea is accentuated, perform 

 tracheotomy. 



As to medicine, give quinine and whisky every 4 hours. If 

 the temperature is around 104 or 105 give small doses of aceta- 

 nilid. Keep the temperature at 104 or less. As soon as the 

 abscess has been opened or has ruptured put the patient on 

 tincture of iron. For the irregular case, if you can make a posi- 

 tive diagnosis, give quinine and whisky, but if the case runs for 

 a long time use anti-streptococcus serum. This may effect a 

 recovery. It would be a good plan to give all suspected cases a 

 prophylactic dose of the serum. 



Post mortem reveals nothing more than the abscesses. 



BURSATTI. 



Bursatti is the name of a disease which produces inflamma- 

 tory swellings in the skin with raw suppurating surfaces. These 

 are called kunkurs. The name "bursatti" is derived from the 

 East Indian word burns, meaning rain, and the disease is spoken 

 of as rain sores. Up to the present time it has proven to be 

 incurable. It may yield for a time but the kunkurs will return. 

 The disease is found mostly in the South and the outbreaks occur 

 in the summer. It is not considered contagious from horse to 

 horse, but rather infectious, two or more getting it from a com- 

 mon source. The inflammation is located in the subcutaneous 

 tissue, and the tumors may be found in the internal organs. In- 



