SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE. 
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ciple, that strangles should be combatted by the antiphlogistic plan 
of treatment, and that bleeding is indicated in the early stage of 
the most benign type of the disease. Experience, however, has 
demonstrated, that, where acute inflammation does not appear, the 
disease runs its regular course without danger ; and, therefore, it 
scarcely seems to be good practice to interfere with its natural pro- 
gress by these abstractions of blood. It is, therefore, with great 
reason that the generality of veterinary practitioners condemn bleed- 
ing in mild and regular strangles, and only consider it as admissible 
when it is complicated with bronchitis or pneumonia. 
As to the contagiousness of strangles, M. Mousis follows the 
opinions of Solleysel, Bourgelat, Paulet, Brugnone, Gilbert, and 
Bose; and he might have equally cited the more recent ones of 
Gohier, Gasparin, and Toggia, and especially the experiments of 
the last author, which must have very great weight in the deter- 
mination of the question. 
It results from the experiments and observations made by M. 
Mousis, that he submitted 23 horses, mules, and asses, to the con- 
tagion of strangles. Of this number, 13, of the age of two or three 
years, became glandered — 10 by cohabitation for a period differing 
from two to nineteen days, and 3 by the injection of the dis- 
charge of strangles into the nostrils during a period of from eight 
to ten days. The other 10 submitted to these experiments were 
unaffected. Four of these ten had cohabited with horses with 
strangles from twelve to fifteen days, and six of them had received 
into their nostrils, for the space of from two to eight days, the 
matter which was ejected from the nose of the sick horses. 
On the whole, M. Girard resumes — and we perfectly agree with 
him, — the notions of M. Mousis with regard to the treatment of 
strangles are wild and theoretical ; but those that have reference 
to the contagiousness of the disease are very interesting. He has 
demonstrated that strangles is often, if not always, contagious ; and 
this agrees with the experience of Toggia. Nevertheless, it is 
desirable that new experiments should be made, and new facts col- 
lected, in order to decide this very serious question. 
ON VARIOUS POISONOUS PLANTS AS THE CAUSE 
OF BLAIN, &c. 
By Mr. W. Mogford, Guernsey. 
Dear Sir, — I HAVE been much interested in perusing your 
Review of Professor Gelle s Pathology of Cattle, and more parti- 
cularly the case described in your No. for August, pp. 575-6. 
