TREATMENT OF FARCY AND GLANDERS. 558 
that disease. I changed the food from beans to bran and 
oats, and gave twice a day in a ball — 
5c Iodidi Potassii, 5ss ; 
Chlor. Ammon., 
Pulv. Gent., aa ^ij ; 
Pulv. Zingib., 5ss ; 
Theriacae, q. s , f. bol. 
In three days after the symptoms were disappearing, and 
in a fortnight the animal was convalescent, and he is now 
doing his usual work without any signs of a relapse. 
Having a case of strangles under my care, I determined to 
analyse the contents of the abscess. I first put a drop on a 
glass slide, and treated it with oxalate of ammonia, when in 
a short time, by the aid of the microscope, I found a great 
excess of oxalate of lime, in the characteristic octohedral 
crystals. Afterwards, I incinerated the contents of the ab- 
scess, and found lime in excess by the usual tests. 
In this case I gave the above ball, and in two days the 
discharge had ceased, and soon after the orifice healed. 
I think it possible that the cause of strangles may be 
traced to the excess of earthy salts in the organism ; for, in 
the majority of cases, the horse is about cutting his tushes 
and corner incisors, at which time the bony framework of 
the animal is fully developed, consequently there must be an 
excess of osseous ‘matter in the bloo'd, and which being not 
now required. Nature perhaps takes this mode to ease herself 
of the burden ; and as the secretion of the same matter is 
going on in the alveolar cavities, the neighbouring parts are 
the most likely to be those affected. 
That glanders is sometimes the sequel of strangles is no 
more than we might expect, if my idea of the disease be 
correct, for I think that if pus be kept pent up in contact 
with the phosphates in any abscess or vomicae in any part 
of the system, that the pyen, or tritoxide of protein of the pus 
may become converted into a phospho-protein compound 
identical with glander-virus. 
