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CASE OF STRANGLES. 
to rally. On examination after death, the bloodvessels have been 
in a state of inanition. The active purges of from six to eight 
drachms of aloes, administered by these persons, produce ruinous 
consequences from super-purgation, the poor animal dying in a 
most pitiable state of exhaustion; yet these very men often boast 
of having purged the animal well, and abstracted a plentiful por¬ 
tion of blood; but, after all, they could not subdue the inflamma¬ 
tion —a very apt term with them, in conjunction with ckill, for 
nearly all the ailments peculiar to horses, with which these gentry 
are conversant. 
From the rapid improvement which is now taking place in our 
profession, and the advancement of sound principles of pathology, 
ere long these pretenders will be discarded; and the owners of 
horses, becoming more acquainted with the nature of disease, will 
see the impropriety of entrusting valuable animals to such capri¬ 
cious and destructive management. There are some grooms, no 
doubt, better informed, and conversant with the common symp¬ 
toms of an every-day disease; but when maladies of a peculiar 
type visit us—such as these epizootics—it needs the tact and assi¬ 
duity of the experienced man properly to treat them. 
CASE OF STRANGLES.—ABSCESS IN ONE OF THE 
KIDNEYS, AND RUPTURED BLOODVESSELS. 
By Mr. W. A. CARTWRIGHT, V.S., Whitchurch. 
On Sunday, the 26th July, 1840,1 was sent for by J. Lowe, Esq. 
banker, of this town, to see a valuable five-year old carriage horse. 
I ascertained that he had been running out for many months at 
grass, and was becoming excessively fat; that during the last week 
he had been several journies of ten or twelve miles with the car¬ 
riage, without having been previously prepared by physic or ex¬ 
ercise; and that, from the previous Friday, he had exhibited symp¬ 
toms of cold, and, two days before I saw him, was bled to the 
extent of five quarts. 
Symptoms .—Those of ordinary catarrh—cough—sore throat, and 
difficulty of swallowing. 
Treatment .—Throat blistered, and febrifuge medicine adminis¬ 
tered. 
After suffering very much for upwards of a week, with obstruc¬ 
tion about the larynx and pharynx, a great discharge took place 
inwardly” through the nostrils, and he became relieved. The 
case then assumed the form of strangles, and a tumour arose be¬ 
tween the jaws in the neighbourhood of the submaxillary glands. 
