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rise four or five degrees above normal in well-marked 

 cases. 



After four or five days the appetite improves, the 

 horse brightens up, and the glandular enlargement slowly 

 disappears. 



This is about the clinical picture of strangles in prob- 

 ably ninety per cent of all cases. It is safe to say that 

 only a very small proportion of these cases ever come to 

 the veterinarian's attention. 



The common belief among horsemen seems to be that 

 aU colts are bound to have this disease sooner or later, and 

 that usually it will take care of itself. This is prac- 

 tically true in both instances, except that occasionally a 

 case will become complicated; and there are not many 

 other diseases that appear in such a midtiplicity of vicious 

 pathological manifestations as one of these complicated, 

 or "rotten" cases of distemper. 



It may so happen that a case of distemper wiU take 

 an irregular, complicated course under the care of a vet- 

 erinarian and the horse may die. This is a calamity in 

 the career of a beginner in the practice of the science of 

 veterinary medicine and surgery. It is something that 

 many farmers, especially, can not comprehend — that a 

 horse could die with distemper ! And nearly every time 

 the veterinarian gets the blame. In the case of an old, 

 established practitioner, this sort of an occurrence does 

 not amount to very much. But with the recent graduate 

 it frequently makes a big difference, often creates a seri- 

 ous hindrance in the path of his successful career in the 

 community. 



Strangles in an irregular form begins at times ia the 

 usual manner, while at other times it appears in a form 

 that makes its recognition difficult. When strangles de- 

 viates from its usual, mild course we see an aggravation 

 of all symptoms. The temperature reaches higher bounds 



