THEORY AND TREATMENT OF STRANGLES. 
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degree, and the eyes have been completely closed. More than a 
quart of fluid has sometimes escaped from a middle-sized dog at 
the first puncture of the tumour. 
The mode of treatment is the same in order to stimulate the 
part, to expedite the suppuration of the tumour, and to lance it 
freely and deep, as soon as matter is evidently formed. The 
wound may be dressed with tincture of aloes, but a thick band¬ 
age must be placed round the neck, to prevent the dog from 
scratching the part, and causing dreadful laceration. 
Cystic Tumours .—These tumours in the throat of the dog are 
not always of a phlegmonous character; they are cysts, sometimes 
rapidly formed, and of considerable size, and filled with a serous 
or gelatinous fluid. Lancing will here be of no service, for the 
orifice will heal and the cyst will fill again. A seton must be 
passed through the tumour, and worn until the cyst is obliterated 
by the adhesion of its sides. 
AN OUTLINE OF THE THEORY AND TREATMENT 
OF STRANGLES, AS TAUGHT AT THE ENGLISH 
VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
This disease is so named from the occasional danger of suffo¬ 
cation, in consequence of the pressure of the tumour on the upper 
air-passages. It is inflammation of the cellular membrane be¬ 
neath the skin, between the branches of the lower jaw. It is a 
disease of which young horses are very susceptible, and from 
which very few escape, when many are confined together and 
exposed to the exciting causes of it; but where there are only 
one or two horses it is not so likely to happen; and for one horse 
attacked with strangles at grass a thousand have it in the 
stable. 
Its most frequent cause is the heated and foul air of ill-ven¬ 
tilated stables—that which is also the cause of catarrh, inflam¬ 
mation of the lungs, farcy, and glanders. A young horse coming 
from pure and cool air to the hot and polluted atmosphere of a 
stable is almost sure to have it. When a young horse is taken 
by the breeder to the fair for sale he is usually healthy enough 
on his journey, he breathes the natural atmosphere; but before 
he has been in the dealer’s stables four or five days, he either 
has distemper (which is inflammation of the membrane lining 
the nostrils) or strangles (inflammation of the membrane under 
the throat). 
Few horses are affected with strangles between the months of 
May and September—the temperature within and without the 
