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You will find the colt struggling for months together to throw 
off the incubus by which it is oppressed, and when that is done 
thriving with a rapidity before unknown. 
Cases .— Mr. Castley gives us some cases in illustration of this. 
A bay gelding, four years old, had cough, but unaccompanied 
by any swelling of the glands or sore throat. This continued 
during a whole month, in spite of medical treatment; at length a 
tumour began to form under the jaw, and a small abscess ensued. 
Another tumour appeared on the cheek, which was opened ; and 
then there was a collection of matter among the muscles of the 
fore-arm, and lastly, over the hip-joint. These were properly 
attended to and healed, and the horse immediately began to im¬ 
prove. This was evidently a case of strangles at the beginning, 
for it was preceded for more than a month by a troublesome 
cough, and this disposition to abscesses every where, arose from 
the slowness with which the natural tumour of strangles pro¬ 
ceeded to suppuration, and the imperfect manner in which it did 
suppurate. He relates another case, in which, after apparently 
recovering from strangles, a mare of three years old sickened and 
died, and a large tumour was found in the mesocolon, filled with 
thin purulent matter. He considered it, and rightly I think, as 
connected with strangles, or one of its sequelae. 
Mr. Tombs mentions a case of strangles, complicated with 
large tumours in the abdomen, and particularly with one on the 
kidney. 
I was sorry to read, while preparing myself for this lecture, in 
our very best veterinary work, “ that the common notion, that 
unless an abscess formed and was evacuated, the animal did 
not derive that constitutional benefit which nature intended him, 
is one of those vulgar chimeras, that seems not upon any rational 
grounds to be deserving of more attention in practice than is 
requisite to appease those who are determined to follow the 
humoral or farrier’s pathology."” I honestly confess that I am 
one of those who are disposed to adopt this farrier’s pathology; 
for I cannot forget the numerous cases in which I have seen 
a puny weakly colt speedily strive after strangles attended with 
proper discharge ; and, on the other hand, the circumscribed 
tumours, more diffused swellings, want of condition, and almost 
worthlessness, which have followed strangles, either improperly 
treated, or not brought sufficiently to a head. 
Treatment Resumed. —Well, then, ourobjectis to promote speedy 
and effectual suppuration in the part. This is the grand object, 
whatever, in other points, may be our theory of the disease. 
Then, except there is considerable fever, there must not be any 
