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and that four only have thus to be accounted for, and 1 again 
have recourse to my daily register. 
One case is entered during the period between Oct. 1, 1846 
and March 31, 1847 : I find this to be (C. 27, br. in.) admitted 
as “ Incipient Strangles;” and, looking to the treatment and 
result, it is stated “ the swelling between the jaws gradually 
became absorbed, and did not come forward to suppuration.” 
The mare, certainly, ever since has been a thriftless animal. I 
now go on to t the period between Oct. 1, 1847 to March 31, 
1848, when two cases of strangles are recorded. I find that one 
of these (E. 10, b. m.), was admitted as having incipient 
strangles ; but the tumour or swelling, which I conceived would 
terminate in the disease, did not come forward ; while, as to the 
other case (C, 26, b. m.), I cannot positively speak to whether 
it was a pure case of strangles or not. 
We now pass over a period of two years, to the last half year 
between Oct. 1, 1850 and March 31, 1851, when it appears, we 
had one case (C. 23, br. m.), which took the regular course ; 
but this animal was eight years old, and had been at her regular 
duty for four years, and was therefore not in the young-horse 
stable ; and old horses naturally are not so much under the in- 
fluence of this disease. 
Summing up the total of cases for five years, they appear to 
be forty ; and, deducting three I have accounted for (two on the 
score of the tumour not coming forward, and one as being an old 
animal and removed from any chance of infecting the young 
horses), there only remains one solitary case occurring without 
several others being affected at the same time. 
This result seems, in some degree, to favour the idea of con- 
tagion being a cause. But, although I incline to that opinion, 
yet am I fully satisfied that the weather and state of atmo- 
sphere have much to do with the appearance of strangles. After 
young horses acquire a certain amount of flesh, and appear to 
be thriving and doing well, and are becoming partly acclimated 
to the stable, we must not expect that all this is to last Fine 
weather often precedes storms, and it appears necessary to 
young horses that they should, in some way or other, rid them- 
selves of something hurtful in the system ; and this is usually 
done by their contracting various diseases ending in copious 
defluxions from the nose, or otherwise by strangles. Thus, we 
often find cases of this last disease arrested by copious dis- 
charges from the nose. But, although under these circum- 
stances the ordinary appearances of strangles have not been gone 
through, yet, to all intents and purposes, has the animal had the 
strangles, and the constitution has rid itself of what is obnoxious 
to it. 
