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process of suppuration has been so slow, that it has been 
necessary to resort to tracheotomy in order to save the animal. 
Treatment after the opening of the Tumour .—You will now 
give a slight aperient—probably a drachm of aloes in the common 
fever ball, for a few successive mornings until the dung is loosened. 
You will keep the horse on green meat or mashes, frequently 
foment the wound, or apply a poultice over it to keep up the 
discharge as long as possible. That beginning to cease, you will 
inject a little tincture of aloes into the orifice, morning and night, 
and the wound will heal quite as rapidly as you could wish. The 
wound being healed, a mild dose of physic will be highly proper; 
and in order to carry off any humour that may remain, a por¬ 
tion of green meat should be continued during a few weeks, the 
horse gradually returning to his proper quantity of corn. 
In general cases, the restoration to health and strength may be 
left to the salutary power of nature; but occasionally strangles 
leaves a considerable degree of weakness. Tonics are then indi¬ 
cated, such as the gentian and the ginger ; and, in cases of great 
debility, the sulphate of iron. I need not tell you that just in 
proportion to the degree of weakness in which the animal is left 
will be the danger of attempting too rapidly to restore the power 
and condition of the horse. Corn must be given very cautiously, 
and tonics administered with much circumspection—the vege¬ 
table tonics first, and afterwards the mineral one. If the weather 
is tolerably warm, there cannot be better practice than turning 
out during the day, and taking up at night. The cough of 
strangles will long remain, after the original exciting cause has 
been removed, and a little imprudence will make it degenerate 
into chronic cough, or broken wind, or, perchance, some danger¬ 
ous inflammatory affection of the chest. 
Bastard Strangles .—The disease so termed I am unable fully 
to describe. It assumes as many forms as the distemper of the 
dog. It will be recognized by some enlargement between the 
branches of the jaw, in the same situation as the tumour of 
strangles, and accompanied by more or less fever, purulent dis¬ 
charge from the nose, and that sometimes profuse ; but the 
swelling does not proceed to suppuration. It teazes for many a 
week, and then begins to lessen, and at length leaves behind it 
a very small hard tumour, which is perceptible for months or 
years, but is not tender, and does not seem in any way to annoy 
the horse. 
All this is evidently an ineffectual attempt of the constitution to 
bring forward and ripen the tumour of strangles, and the mode 
of assistance most likely to be successful is the application of 
local stimuli in the manner that 1 have described. 
Vives.— The term vives is used with much ambiguity by 
