ON STRANGLES, 597 
upon them the names of surgeons; and not only the names, but 
the wages also. 
We asking of them whether they were surgeons or no, they 
said they were. We demanded with whom they were brought 
up; and they, with shameless faces, w’ould answer, either with 
one cunninsc man or another, which was dead. Then we de- 
manded of them what chirurgery stuff they had to cure men 
withal; and they would shew us a pot, or a box, which they had 
in a budget; wherein was such trumpery as they did use to 
grease horses’ heels withal, and laid upon scabbed horses’ 
backs, with rewel and such like. And others, that w’ere cobblers 
and tinkers, they used shoe-maker’s wax, wuth the rust of old 
pans, and made therewithal a noble salve, as they did term it. 
‘‘ But in the end this worthy rabblement w^as committed to the 
Marshalsea, and threatened by the Duke’s Grace to be hanged 
for their w orthy deeds, except they would declare the truth, wdiat 
they were, and of what occupations; and in the end they did con¬ 
fess, as I have declared to you before.”— Aikm's Memoirs of 
Medicinet p. 99. 
ON STRANGLES, AND ITS OCCASIONAL ANOMA¬ 
LOUS APPEARANCES AND CONSEQUENCES. 
jBj/ Mr. J. M. Hales, F./S., Oswestry, 
Strangles, in its regular form, is a disease requiring little 
attention ; and is generally considered as an affection which at 
least nine young horses out of ten will have; yet it occasionally 
takes on an irregular character, becomes very troublesome to 
manage, and not unfrequently fatal. 
I do not wish to enter into any discussion as to the conta¬ 
gious or infectious nature of strangles; but my experience con¬ 
vinces me that, when a bad sort of the complaint shews itself in 
a neighbourhood, the great majority of horses or colts attacked 
with strangles in that district, will have the disease in an irre¬ 
gular way. 
In the early part of the present summer I was attending some 
young horses and colts in a gentleman’s stud with strangles, and 
there was scarcely a case that had not some anomaly about it; 
such as secondary abscesses forming about the throat and paro¬ 
tid glands, in the flank, upon the shoulder, &c. Shortly after 
this the groom of Sir W. W. Wynn (who keeps his young stock 
in the immediate neighbourhood of the gentleman alluded to) 
told me that he had got the strangles shewing itself amongst his 
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