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STRANGLES IN THE HORSE, 
fula, which word is derived from the Latin name of the sow, 
1 scrota/ is peculiar to man and swine. These last are also subject 
to apoplexy. A friend of mine lost several by this disease. They 
are also liable to softening of the brain ; a disease rare, if at all 
to be met with, among other brutes, but common in the human 
subject. They are liable to tubercles in the lungs and liver, 
to disease of the heart, to rupture of bloodvessels, accidents 
almost peculiar to them and mankind ; and, more remarkable 
still, they are subject to a species of madness quite different to 
the hydrophobia in dogs and other brutes, but bearing an exact 
resemblance to the human insanity. This resemblance between 
man and swine I notice that Juvenal represents the Jews as being 
in part aware of 
“ Nec distare putant (that is, the Jews) humana carne smltem.” 
Satire 14, line 98. 
See Farmer's Magazine , No. 1, vol. x, 1839. 
[We cordially thank Mr. Cartwright for this communication. 
We consider it much to his credit to have taken up such a 
subject, and to have treated it so judiciously as he has done. 
We trust that the time is not far distant, when the veterinary 
surgeon will consider as his legitimate patient every animal 
that we have domesticated, from whom we derive certain ad- 
vantages, and whose sufferings — perhaps the result of the folly 
or cruelty of man — he can alleviate. — Y.] 
CASES OF STRANGLES IN THE HORSE; AND 
PNEUMONIA IN CATTLE. 
By Mr, W. C. Lord, V.S., Mitchelson, County Cork . 
Although but a short time in the veterinary profession, I 
have met with some interesting cases ; and if you would give in- 
sertion to one or two of them in your excellent Journal, they 
might not be uninteresting to some of your readers. 
The first is a case of strangles in a blood foal, fourteen months 
old. 
Symptoms . — A large swelling extended over the submaxillary 
space, but largest at the gland ; attended by dulness, loss of 
appetite, and slight running from the nose, presenting altogether 
considerable resemblance to the influenza, except that the pulse 
