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ON THE TREATMENT OF STRANGLES 
necessary as in glanders ; and in such cases, too, we should think 
of the possibility of producing, by inoculation, in a more favour- 
able state of the season and the patient, a milder and less dan- 
gerous disease. 
Memoirs et. Observations, vol. i, p. 266. 
ON THE TREATMENT OF STRANGLES BY ANTI- 
PHLOGISTIC MEANS. 
Addressed to the Royal and Central Society of Agriculture at 
Paris , by Professor Rodet, of Alfort. 
This talented Professor, taking a review of the symptoms and 
character and progress and post-mortem appearances of stran- 
gles, is convinced that it is an inflammatory disease, of a type 
more or less acute ; and therefore his treatment of it is of a 
strictly antiphlogistic nature. This seems to be opposed to 
the opinion and practice of many of his brethren, as it is to 
the general opinion and practice of English veterinarians. 
Professor Rodet relates two-and-twenty cases of strangles that 
were thus treated, and, generally speaking, with complete 
success. Would our limits permit, we should be glad to 
insert many of them ; but we are reluctantly compelled to 
content ourselves with the “ Resume” — the recapitulation — 
always the best part, and sometimes the only valuable one, of 
a French essay. 
It may be unnecessary to add, that we must not be considered 
as espousing the cause and maintaining the opinions of Pro- 
fessor Rodet. In our mind, they are founded on premises 
which have no solid foundation — even the facts are not as he 
conceives them to be. What is strangles ? A disease attended 
by considerable inflammation in its early stages ; but for what 
purpose, or with what connected ? with the formation of a 
considerable tumour, previous to that of a considerable abscess. 
The formation of the abscess is the essence of the disease. It 
is that to the accomplishment of which our medical treatment 
should be directed ; it is that which must be accomplished, 
or future and serious mischief will endanger or destroy the 
patient. 
