BY ANTIPHLOGISTIC MEANS. 
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It is attended by sympathetic fever. We watch the intensity 
and the progress of this fever. If it exceeds its proper bounds, 
we adopt the^antiphlogistic fc treatment which Professor Rodet 
recommends; but in no other case should we be justified in so 
doing. Having thus guarded ourselves from misapprehension, 
we lay before our readers the principles of the learned Professor. 
Y. 
“On reviewing the various facts which I stated,” says the 
Professor, “ it appears, 
“ 1. That the causes of strangles, considered as a malady 
almost peculiar to the colt, do not differ from those which can, 
at other epochs of their life, produce in them other acute inflam- 
matory diseases. 
“ 2. The symptoms of strangles have a character, progress, 
and termination in every respect similar to the other inflammatory 
diseases of which the same parts are the seat. 
“ 3. The engorgement of the glands beneath the jaw in 
strangles is, as in all the other inflammations of the nasal mem- 
brane, an effect purely sympathetic. 
“ 4. The only difference which exists between strangles and 
other inflammations of the mucous membranes of the head, 
is entirely dependent on the time of life at which it manifests 
itself, and, consequently on the effects which protracted and 
painful dentition, or slow and interrupted growth, may produce 
on its intensity and its'march. 
“ 5. It is sufficient for the horses to remain exposed to the 
influence of the causes which have produced or aggravated 
strangles in them, in order to see that, if abandoned to itself, it 
proceeds to a point as constant as inevitable. 
‘"6. The sympathy of action which, in a state of health, 
places the mucous membranes in a state of intimate dependence 
on one another, — the union so intimate of these membranes with 
the . organs which they cover, and which participate in the 
changes they undergo — and, finally, the organic consent which 
equally connects them together in their state of disease — these 
are fully sufficient to explain, without having recourse to any 
specific virus, how all the morbid states and conditions are pro- 
duced which we continually see complicated with the existence 
of strangles. 
“ 7. The lesions which are found on opening horses that 
have died of strangles, either abandoned to take its natural course, 
or too late or inefficiently treated, announce the most acute 
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