412 DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND sURGER-. 
Strangles is supposed to be a disease to which all horsex are 
subject once in their lives, yet Mr. PERCIVALL contends that 
many horses escape the disease. Hence, if many escape, it ir very 
natural for those who know the value of pure air, nataral food, 
and exercise to conclude that the colt, while enjoying these great 
luxuries in the open air, by the side of its mother, guided | 7 her 
euperior instinct, is not liable to be attacked with a disease -vhicn, 
as already stated, we believe to result from depriving aniv als of 
those blessings which Nature has in store for them in their unre 
strained state. But it often happens that young colts, aftr run- 
ning a season with their mother, partaking of the invig: rating 
country air, grow up to be strong and robust, and then the period 
arrives for weaning them. How changed the scene! Instead of 
being permitted to gambol in their native element, they ar? con- 
fined to a small space, not large enough to swing a cat roun), and 
perhaps as dark as the grave; and the animal, after fretting for a 
season, and making unsuccessful efforts to escape from its prison- 
house, tamely submits to the discipline, not, however, until he has 
cut and bruised and otherwise injured himself. I was called, a 
short time ago, to visit a young colt that had lacerated his head, 
breast, and fore-legs in a most shocking manner, in making an 
attempt to escape through a window from the horrors of confine 
ment. His companions were about a dozen cows, more calculated 
to alarm and render his position a perilous one than otherwise; 
and the impure atmosphere, rendered sc by the emanations from 
the excrements and from the lungs of his companions, was a source 
of great mischief. Then, who can blame such an one for attempt- 
ing to escape and regain liberty? If strangles should appear in 
such a subject, it would not be surprising. 
Then, again, take 2 colt from its mother, whose milk contains 
all the elements for sustaining life and developing the organization 
of the young subject, and place it upon a diet of hay or like innu- 
tritious trash, a whole truss of which would not afford one-half 
the quantity of nutriment contained in a quart of its mother’s 
milk. However profitable and well-adapted hay may be for stock 
of mature growth and powerful digestive organs, it is a sad mis- 
take to suppose that it will do for the young. A case of this kind 
came under my observation last year. The subject, aged two and 
a half years, died in a state of marasmus (a gradual wasting of tne 
syste. without any apparent disease). A post mortem examina 
