340 MR. youatt’s veterinarv lectures. 
animals, but not warmth in a close and ill-ventilated place. I 
have found occasional benefit from the pulvis antimonialis in 
doses of a grain, made into a pill with bread. The country 
people have a great many nostrums. At the head of them stand 
garlic and rue, beaten into a mass with butter; and they un¬ 
doubtedly are serviceable, whatever be the modus operandi, 
whether they are diaphoretics or expectorants, or, rather, mild 
stimulants suited to a disease so apt to assume the typhoid form. 
Others give an apparently strange compound—rue and brick-dust, 
but not so absurd on second consideration as it would appear at 
first to be. There is the mildly stimulant effect of the rue, and 
the mechanical agency of the brick-dust, either in assisting the 
languid trituration of the food, or expelling the worms with which 
the intestines of these animals are often clogged. 
Ducks are very subject to nasal catarrh, and frequently die 
almost suddenly. In geese it is recognized under the name of 
gargle , and is often successfully treated with garlic, beaten into 
a mass with butter. Even pigeons are not exempt from it. 
Whole dovecots are sometimes depopulated by it. There is 
the same defluxion from the nose and eyes and mouth, the same 
disinclination or inability to feed, the moping appearance, and 
gradual wasting. Garlic and rue are the common specifics here, 
but always in combination with warmth and cleanliness. When 
every thing else has failed, it is said that little pills of the cordial 
horse-ball have roused the system, and enabled the animal to 
shake off the disease.—Gentlemen, I make no apology for in¬ 
cluding these animals in our legitimate list of patients. If I 
understand our duty aright, it extends to every animal that we 
have domesticated, and that is a part of our property, and on 
which we have too often entailed disease. At all events, they 
have life and feeling. 
STRANGLES. 
I know not where better to treat of a disease, from an attack 
of which, of greater or less intensity, the horse seldom escapes, 
_I mean inflammation of the cellular substance immediately 
beneath the lower jaw, and known by the term strangles. It is 
peculiar to young horses, and generally attacks them when they 
are between three and four years old. 
Symptoms .—The horse is dull, feverish, off his appetite, does 
not thrive, his coat stares. Cough comes on—it is treated as 
common cough, but it gets worse; there are violent, almost 
suffocating fits of wheezing and coughing—slavering from the 
mouth—swelling of the tongue—discharge from both nostrils, 
usually a yellowish colour, and soon of a purulent character, yet 
