ON TIIE TREATMENT OF STRANGLES. 
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inflammation of the pulmonary and other organs, independent of 
the effects of an inflammation of this kind, which is observable 
on the mucous membrane of the naso-bronchial cavity, and even 
on that of the digestive passages, and also in the lymphatic 
ganglions. 
“ 8. Not only a stimulating regimen — pretended to be stimulat- 
ing and tonic — but also many of the curative measures adopted, 
whether simply stimulant, or, in point of fact, incendiary, may, 
if not always, yet in a great majority of cases, aggravate the 
symptoms of strangles, instead of contributing to its cure. 
“ 9. This is never the case when the antiphlogistic mode of 
treatment is adopted, comprehending bleedings from the jugular, 
and other sanguineous effusions; but which, on the contrary, 
uniformly shew themselves to be salutary even in the most serious 
cases of strangles and its complications. 
t( 10. Far from being prejudicial in this disease, the most 
active antiphlogistic treatment is that alone which can save the 
horse when seriously attacked with strangles, and in which tonic 
medicines, seconded by stimulating regimen, have not only com- 
pletely failed, but have visibly contributed to aggravate the 
disease. 
“ 11. Horses treated with and cured of strangles by antiphlo- 
gistic measures, commencing at first by copious and perhaps 
repeated bleedings, have afterwards exhibited as good health as 
those who, having had it only in a mild form, have been cured 
by the tonics that have been administered to them, or, in many 
instances, in spite of these tonics. 
“ 12. The bleedings, instead of, as is pretended, arresting 
the formation of the tumour and the establishment of the suppu- 
rative process, have never done this in the cases in which I have 
employed them, but, on the contrary, have sometimes hastened 
both. 
“ 13. The cure of horses attacked by strangles is not only 
more sure, but often more rapid than when, in a milder case, the 
disease is abandoned to its own natural progress. 
“ Reflecting on all these facts, it is natural to demand, whence 
proceeds this singular fear, that bleeding is always injurious 
when employed in the treatment of strangles ? Is it founded 
on reason or on fact? Does it not rather repose on facts illusory 
and badly understood ? And, in fine, can it be possible that, 
when we have suspended the march of inflammation by bleeding, 
its consequences can be fatal or injurious to the animal. 
“ Ought we then to conclude, that bleeding should be pre- 
scribed in the treatment of strangles? Certainly not. I would 
say, on the contrary, that here, as in every other case of practice. 
