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his appetite, had commenced running from both nostrils, coughed 
softly and loosely, and had swelling under the jaw, which ended 
in resolution, all the symptoms terminating eight days from their 
commencemert. 
It has been remarked that strangles is more surely communi- 
cated at an early than a late stage, and in a certain form mure 
readily than in others. Strangles will assume the herpetic char- 
acter, simulate farcy and glanders, settle in the mesenteri¢ glands, 
or may follow castration. In regard to contagion, may be men- 
tioned, as most readily communicable, that form of strangles which 
assumes the character of eruptions on the lips, nose, and pituitary 
membrane.” 
The Tumor of Strangles is not always confined to the submax- 
illary space, as will be observed from the following case, which 
occurred in the author’s practice, a short time ago, in a gray mare, 
and which speedily ran to a fatal termination. The subject had 
previously suffered from some internal disorder, and, on recovery 
from which, did not appear to regain its usual health, but re- 
mained in an unthrifty condition. A few days before our atten- 
tion was called to the case, a tum_r made its appearance on the 
near hip, which suppurated and discharged. On the morning of 
our visit, the animal had been attacked with abdominal pain, for 
which remedies had been prescribed. They not appearing to 
afford relief, the owner called in the aid of some person, who in- 
serted a knife into the mouth, and wounded the palatine artery, 
from which the blood had flowed for several hours, but was now 
arrested. We found the extremities icy cold, and the pulse very 
feeble. The eye appeared ylassy, mucous surfaces pale, and the 
lips hanging pendulous. There was a painful tumor on the near 
hind leg, close to the stifle, aad another on the flank of the same 
side. The animal was excecdingly stiff and lame in the hind ex- 
tremitics, and appeared to be failing very fast. Considering the 
case a hopeless one, we merely recommended some restorative cor- 
dial and a few quarts of gruel. The animal died in the course 
of a few hours, and its death, no doubt, was hastened by the lose 
of blood; for, as the owner expressed himself, “the horse had 
some life in him before being bled,” thereby intimating that the 
abstraction of blood deprived him of that life. 
Treatment.—So soon as matter can be detected in the tumor or 
abscess beneath the jaw it should be laid open. This will liber. 
