268 STRANGLES. 
Here, however, the similarity ends. Strangles is developed as an 
abscess under the jaw; measles appears as a rash all over the body. 
Both, however, are eruptive, and both are cast outward at some expense 
to the system. 
Strangles is peculiarly the property of the rich man’s horse. It is 
spoken of as relieving the body of some matter prejudicial to the after- 
health. The author has known several poor men’s horses which never 
exhibited strangles. Those animals certainly seemed none the worse 
for escaping the disorder. Nevertheless, it may relieve the body of the 
high-bred and tenderly-nurtured animal of something which might prove 
injurious if retained, although every quadruped does not appear to need 
such a cleansing. And the man must have some extraordinary faculty 
who would enter a certain stable, and point out the creatures which had 
suffered and which had escaped the strangles. Still, it may be, and 
probably is, an effort of nature to adapt the body to a sudden change of 
circumstances, though whether these circumstances are natural or induced 
remains to be proved. 
Highly-bred horses are cared for from the moment of their birth. Up 
to a certain period—varying in different parts of the country and in 
different animals—the colt is allowed to roam the field. All at once, 
however, it is taken up, and its education commences. From the dew, 
and from the grass under its feet and within its mouth, the colt is sud- 
denly removed to dry food, and is imprisoned inside a hot and fetid 
stable. Nature rebels against such treatment. The strangles is the 
consequence, after which the poor captive becomes better adapted to its 
unnatural situation. 
Strangles is ushered in by slight general indisposition, which, how- 
ever, does not pass away. Sickness rather hovers over the colt than 
plumps directly upon it. The ani- 
mal is then, in stable phraseology, 
“breeding strangles.” After a few 
days, a stiffness of the neck is con- 
spicuous ; subsequently an enlarge- 
ment can be perceived. It is, at 
first, very hard, hot, and tender, A 
discharge from the nose appears. 
The symptoms of general disease 
become aggravated. The throat is 
sore; the breathing is oppressed; 
the discharge is copious; the coat stares; the appetite is lost; the 
ereature stands, with eyes half closed, the picture of mute distress, 
At length the tumor softens. It becomes prominent at a particular 
THE HEAD OF A HORSE WITH STRANGLES. 
