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sine quo non of strangles treatment. With these two 

 alone we can accomplish aU that is possible to accomplish, 

 and we do this in a very direct manner. These two agents 

 are: 



1. Bacterins. 



2. The abscess knife. 



If bacterins had absolutely no other ground for exist- 

 ence, their effect in this disease alone would give them a 

 high place in the catalogue of veterinary therapeutics. 

 Either plain strepto-baeterins, or better still the mixed 

 pus bacterins, are to be used in strangles. Every case 

 of this disease that is serious enough to require any at- 

 tention whatever should be given at least one full dose. 

 Cases of greater severity should receive two doses forty- 

 eight hours apart, and several doses thereafter every 

 third day until the ease is well under control. 



Abscesses that form should be lanced freely and 

 promptly. On general principles the patient may be 

 put on tonic treatment. Complications of a functional 

 character are treated symptomatically as they arise. 



The early use of bacterin treatment has proved its 

 worth as a preventive of complications and as a rapid 

 control of existing lesions in hundreds of cases in my 

 practice. So reliable have I found their action, and so 

 unquestionable, that I would not hesitate to undertake 

 the handling of strangles in any form with them alone. 



