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CASES OF STRANGLES, ETC. 
tonics for six weeks or a month previous to the return of the 
monsoon, or rainy season. The disease was quickly eradi- 
cated from the regiment, and for the last dozen years or 
more I have never seen a case of bursautee in the service . 
CASES OF SUPPRESSED STRANGLES, ETC. 
By R. Hudson, V. S., Moorgate, East Retford. 
Sir, Seeing in a back number an account of Strangles 
and its sequelae, and more recently a complaint of correspon- 
dents being rather slack of late, I am induced to send you 
another of the kind : it, and one or two more, may do for a 
corner, when better things from abler pens are not at hand. 
I have often heard and read of suppressed strangles and its 
consequences, but this is the only case that I have been able 
to trace through. 
A black cart filly, two j r ears old, belonging to Mr. B — of H .* 
had an attack of strangles early in 1 850 ; the owner being a 
“ penny-wise ” man, did not seek any advice, yet being also an 
impatient man, he could not let it alone, and before any matter 
had formed pricked the enlargement under the throat in two or 
three places with a penknife ; it never suppurated. Some time 
after in April, feeling convinced that 66 it was taking hold of 
her,” to use his own words, I was requested to see her; this sub- 
stance had grown larger, projecting between the jaws something 
like a good-sized turnip, and felt hard. Blister, ditto; ditto, 
repeat. The Empt. Hydr. Biniodid. was freely applied, setons 
passed through and caustics applied to them for some time ; 
however, nothing would induce suppurative action, or lessen 
it, — instead of being reduced it had grown larger : this state of 
things continued until the autumn ; I told my employer that 
the only chance left was the knife, and after that perhaps it 
might grow again, — however, he wished her to be operated upon 
after he had got his wheat sown. My patient w T as cast on the 
6th of November; I was careful to leave as much sound skin 
as possible, and not to cut too near the vessels as they wind 
round the jaw, knowing of nothing else to fear; the tumour 
being removed, we had bleeding q. s. in jets from numerous 
small orifices, most of which were speedily stayed with the iron ; 
which also answered another purpose, that of searing down any 
remaining portion of the diseased gland closer to the vessels 
than I ventured with the knife. Two vessels that did not 
* Buckle, of Hayton, a village three miles in a N.E. direction. 
