THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXVII, 
No. 317. 
MAY, 1854. 
Third Series, 
No. 77. 
TUBERCULOUS DISEASES OF HORSES IN INDIA. 
( Continued .) 
By J. T. Hodgson, Y.S. 
The manner in which Captain Apperley has been mis- 
understood, by the. wrong use of the term “ quittor, 55 shews 
the necessity of getting rid, as Mr. W. Percivall has done in 
his last edition, c On Diseases of the Chest, 5 of the “ vulgar 
cant and farriers’ appellations in common use. 55 Only those 
used to young stock are able to guess what Capt. Apperley 
meant. In No. 25, c Veterinarian* for January, 1850, (vide 
p. 49), ee The idea of strangles being contagious is not new. 
Sollysel entertained it; indeed, he thought that glanders 
might be caught from strangles. He viewed strangles as an 
effort of nature to discharge out of the system some general 
disease of it ; and thought that horses, like children having 
smallpox, must have it once in their lives. The tumour be- 
tween the branches of the jaw-bone did not invariably, he 
observed, come to suppuration, but he always thought the 
end better answered when it did. Some horses, however, 
he added, cast off this peccant humour through other parts 
of the body, such as the shoulder, the hock, over the kid- 
neys, through the foot ; through, indeed, that part of the body 
which was the weakest* A horse will cast his humour 
through a wounded part whenever Nature is prepared to get 
rid of it. 55 
“ These remarkable passages evince Sollysel’s just notions 
of the nature of strangles. Many authors who wrote after 
him adopted his opinions. 55 
Mr. W. Percivall, on c Diseases of the Chest, 5 at p. 5, writes, 
(e It has been, my endeavour to show, that the natural or 
necessary consequence of transporting a horse from a cold to 
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