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tion failed to detect any disease other than general emaciation, 
On making inquiries concerning the food, the owner replied, “The 
eclt has been fed on good sweet hay and corn-stalks ever since it 
was weaned.” This was capital food for the poor thing, provided, 
however, its stomach had a grist-mill within it; otherwise, it waa 
hard fare, and must derange the digestive function, and, ere the 
colt has attained maturity, dyspepsia, in either a mild or aggra- 
vated form, has secured a victim. 
Mr. PERCIVALL has defined strangles to be “a diffusible swell- 
ing under the jaw. The tumor consists in a circumscribed inflam- 
mation, having all the characteristics of simple phlegmon, attack- 
ing the subcutaneous cellular substance included between the 
branches of the jaw, which, in consequence, become gradually 
filled and distended with effusions of lymphy and serous matters, 
acquires a firm and solid feel, tenderness on pressure, and a sense 
of unnatural heat. This commonly proceeds to suppuration, end- 
ing, to all appearances, in a common submaxillary abscess. Now, 
this, and this alone, constitutes atrangles. There are in the 300ks 
a variety of other symptoms described, but they are all concomi- 
tant or accidental, none but these being, properly speaking, essen- 
tial to its existence. The usual concomitants are, membranous 
inflammation, giving rise to soreness about the throat ; reddening 
and discharge at the nose, and perhaps cough ; tumefaction of the 
salivary glands, producing pain and difficulty of deglutition ; and, 
lastly, some slight febrile commotion of the system,” 
Contagiousness of Strangles—We learn from the “ Veterina- 
rian” that M. RreyNat, clinical professor at the Alfort School, 
submits a number of observations corroborative of the contagious 
character of strangles. He states that “young horses having 
strangles, and put into stables with horses of adult age, doing 
their duty, have communicated the disease to those of the latter, 
who have stood in adjoining stalls, though some few have only 
exhibited the disease in a catarrhal form. Even the foal has been 
known to suck the disease from its dam. Moreover, experiment 
has been had recourse to to inoculate for strangles. M. Damalix 
ameared with a sponge, impregnated with matter taken from the 
abscess of strangles, twice daily, both sides of the pituitary mem- 
brane and the internal surfaces of the linings of the eyelids, in a 
sound horse, about to be cast for spavin. This was continued for 
seven days, On the eighth, he remarked that the horse had lose 
