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A CASE OF STRANGLES. 
and which appears to strangulate some portion of intestine. In 
some cases I have found two ligaments, varying in size from a 
small quill to three times that magnitude. If operated upon early, 
the animal generally recovers without the aid of medicine. I have 
never seen any record of this complaint in books of farriery. 
What think you of it, Messieurs Editors ? 
This seems to be the effect of castrating the ox by drawing 
out the cord or spermatic artery. The vessel, when torn asunder, 
recedes into the scrotum and up into the abdomen, and there 
producing inflammation : the formation of a new membrane is 
the consequence. Such, at least, appears to be the probable 
cause; but further observation may throw more light on this 
subject, and, we think, direct to the means of preventing its 
occurrence. The hint we have thrown out will, perhaps, induce 
Mr. Corbett to examine more carefully the cases which may come 
under his treatment, and communicate his observations, both on 
the cause and, more fully, on the operation. This, at least, is 
not inappropriately called the cords. D. 
A CASE OF STRANGLES, WITH INFLAMMATION 
OF THE PAROTIDS AND MESENTERY. 
By Mr . S. Browne, V.S., Melton Mowbray . 
My attendance was requested to a brown four-year-old horse, 
on the 22d of Sept. 1833, which was labouring under the febrile 
symptoms of strangles. There was accelerated pulse, cough, 
sonorous breathing, purulent discharge from the nose, &c. I 
directed them to steam his nose, foment his throat, and to feed 
him with mashes and grass. Some fever medicine was sent, and 
a bottle of liquid blister, which was applied to his throat. 
The discharge from the nose became copious, accompanied 
by tumefaction of the submaxillary glands, which in due time 
suppurated. His appetite continued impaired, and he expe¬ 
rienced some difficulty in swallowing, which was principally 
owing to the parotid gland on the near side having become en¬ 
larged. The pulse was natural. Some tonic fever medicine 
was then given, and local remedies were applied to the swollen 
gland, which also suppurated. The sonorous breathing, the dis¬ 
charge from the nose, and the cough, nearly ceased; but his ap¬ 
petite did not improve, and he lingered in this state until the 
evening of the 23d of October, at which period he threw himself 
down with great violence, and died before I could see him. 
The morbid changes which 1 observed after death were inflam- 
