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PATHOLOGICAL FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Action .—To cuive or flex the tail laterally around the quarter. 
In switching off flies from the hind parts, these muscles are the 
principal ones called into action. 
compressor coccygi s .— (Ischio-coccygeus.) 
Situation. —At the side of the root of the tail. 
Form. —Broad and flattened. 
Attachment. —Anteriorly, to the sacro-sciatic ligament and to 
the ischium ; posteriorly, to the transverse processes of the four or 
five uppermost bones of the coccyx. 
Action. —To assist in the depression of the tail; but, princi¬ 
pally, to maintain it forcibly compressed against the rump. 
[To be continued.] 
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Communications anir Cases. 
Ars veterinaria post medicinam secunda est.-^VEGETius. 
PATHOLOGICAL FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
By Air. Castley, V. S. 12th Lancers. 
No. III. 
u I shall studiously avoid controversial discussions when they can lead to 
no practical results ; and theory unsupported by experience I shall alto¬ 
gether reject.’ 7 — Dr. BallengalVs Lectures. 
“Let us - - 
Try vvliat the open, what the covert yield .’ 7 
OF STRANGLES. 
I have frequently heard it remarked by farmers, and also by 
other persons, whose practical observations I consider at all times 
worthy of attention, that the period of strangles is often a 
much more trying and critical time for young horses than most 
people seem to have any idea of; that, when colts get well over 
this complaint, they generally begin to thrive and improve in a 
remarkable manner, or the contrary; that, in fact, it seems to 
effect some decided constitutional change in the animal. Often, 
when a young horse is looking sickly, delicate or thriftless, they 
will say, “he is breeding the strangles/ 5 or that “strangles is 
hanging about him, and he will not be better until he gets 
over that complaint. 55 
Now I am inclined to think there is a good deal of truth in 
these remarks. And not merely because I think the remarks of 
