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THE THEORY AND TREATMENT OF STRANGLES, 
CORYZA, &c„ AS TAUGHT AT THE FRENCH VE¬ 
TERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
[Extracted from Professor Vatel’s Elements of Veterinary Pathology.] 
Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose may be 
simple or complicated with bronchitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, 
&c. It may also be sporadic or epizootic, affecting young or 
adult animals. 
RHINITIS IN MONODACTYLES*. 
A. Acute rhinitis in young horses (strangles) is usually asso¬ 
ciated with laryngitis, sometimes with pharyngitis: it is a 
true rhino-laryngitis. It manifests itself by the heaviness of 
the head, disgust of food, listlessness, fever more or less intense, 
redness of the nasal membrane, which, at first dry, soon secretes 
a limpid fluid, that is not long in becoming, to a greater or less 
degree, white and consistent. The cellular tissue and ganglions 
of the channel between the jaws become inflamed, enlarged, and 
suppurate. An abscess is formed under the jaw. When the 
inflammation is very intense, so that it extends to the trachea 
and the lungs, there is some cough, difficulty of breathing, 
heaving of the flanks, heat in the mouth, viscous slaver, intense 
fever, 8cc. Sudden change from green to dry food appears to be 
the principal cause of this disease, and it usually attacks horses 
from two to five years old ; sometimes, but very rarely, it appears 
before or after that period. 
When the symptoms of strangles are not very intense (mild 
strangles), no stimulating treatment should be made use of. 
The patient should be kept in a moderate temperature, his 
solid food should be slightly diminished, and the neck and 
susceptible parts of the body covered, to keep up the heat. The 
running from the nose now insensibly diminishes, the abscess 
under the jaw breaks, and the animal is usually convalescent in 
about twenty days. When the inflammation is very intense 
(malignant strangles), antiphlogistic means must be had recourse 
to. (See acute rhinitis in adults.) When the organs of respi¬ 
ration participate in the inflammation, those remedies should be 
made use of which are recommended in the articles on bronchitis, 
pneumonia, &c. 
B. Acute rhinitis in full-grown horses (coryza, morfondure, 
nasal catarrh, bastard strangles), presents itself under the fol¬ 
lowing characters :—The animal snorts frequently; the nasal 
* From p,i», nose. Inflammation of the nasal membrane. 
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