216 TUBERCULOUS DISEASES OF HORSES IN INDIA. 
a warm atmosphere, arid from poor to good living, is the 
generation of plethora or fulness of blood, the tendency of 
which state of body is to inflammation or eruption, called 
‘ breaking out/ the seat or site of inflammation or eruption, 
being the part locally predisposed, or that happens to have 
blood attracted to it by some cause or other of topical or 
specific irritation ; which part, in horseman’s phraseology, is 
said to ‘fly.’” Well, when irregular strangles happens 
through the foot , it is that Capt. Apperley’s treatment is then 
directed to it by his N.B., and which the veterinary surgeon 
at the Central Stud, if there be one, should have called an 
abscess in the foot , as well as explained the cause, without my 
making the above quotations from these able observers and 
writers on disease. It is not what is commonly called a 
quittor, arising from accidental bruise, but the result of a 
specific fever. 
Sometimes the abscess is so small that it heals like an 
over-reach, with black or any other coloured wash; at other 
times, when the fever has run high, it extends over great 
portion of the foot, though the opening between hair and 
hoof, where it bursts at the coronet, ma^ be small, like the 
sinus of a quittor. When the abscess of the foot is large, 
the horn has to be removed; the consequence is, that a large 
surface of the sensible foot is exposed ; some cases will heal 
readily with ordinary treatment, others will not, and oftener 
than anything else, fungus springs up, and it becomes, what 
is by farriers commonly called, a cankered foot; what other 
name to give it I do not know, as whether this be also a 
tuberculous form of disease, I am only prepared to write 
from its being the consequence of the specific fever of 
domestication ; from the similarity to bursautee, in the na- 
ture of the fungus, I am inclined to think it is tuberculous 
disease ; therefore, if proper* doses of Hydrarg. Chlor. is 
found beneficial for the one, it will be equally so for the 
other. I found local applications alone insufficient for the 
cure of either bursautee or this disease in the foot ; to neither 
of which I would make any pretensions to cure ; but I would 
to preventing either by the proper management of young or 
old stock. The student cannot do better than study Mr. 
W. Percivall’s last editions, particularly the introductory ob- 
servations : it is the neglect of prevention, and to render the 
attack light, that is the cause of the bad cases of irregular 
strangles at the Stud Depots in India, which unfortunately are 
* Perhaps the doses mentioned by Capt. Apperley were those given 
him to fillies in the second year, the time at which these diseases occur at 
the stud. 
