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ON STRANGLES. 
young horses and colts. I remarked that he was likely to have 
a troublesome job of it, for I had attended several cases in his 
neighbourhood, and every one had been of an irregular kind: 
and pretty well has my prediction been verified; for out of at 
least twenty cases that have occurred in this stud, not more than 
four or five have run their course in the regular way. 
In several, after the tumour between the jaws had suppurated 
ajid the disease was apparently going off, sudden enlargements 
took place in the parotid glands, and about the throat; in some 
cases rapidly suppurating, while others, being of an indolent 
character, required repeated applications of liquid blister and 
linseed poultices to bring the abscesses to maturity. 
We also had cases in which abscesses formed in the flank and 
upon different parts of the body; and although these circum¬ 
stances created a great deal of trouble, yet we only lost two; the 
one a pony previously broken-winded, in which the secondary 
disorder attacked the chest: the other case is perhaps worth de¬ 
tailing. 
While I was in attendance on the above stud, I was, one day, 
asked by the groom (an intelligent and unassuming man) to look 
at a two-years old colt, which, he said, did not appear well, and 
yet there was no particular disease about him. He had shewn 
the external symptoms of strangles slightly, and was supposed 
to be recovering. He was languid, and lost flesh, and had been so 
for some time. He had an unhealthy, unthrifty appearance; 
he was dull in countenance and listless in his motions. There was 
no cough, no difficulty of breathing, no manifestation of pain ; 
but he had a quick small pulse of 80. The respiratory murmur 
was distinct. Small doses of calomel, digitalis, and antimony, 
were ordered to be given every alternate day, with light mash 
diet, &c. 
Little alteration was observed for about ten days, when he had 
an attack of what the stable people thought cholic. The groom 
was from home; but he was bled, and had a dose of cholic mix¬ 
ture, which is always kept in these stables to be ready when 
required. 
I saw the colt on the next day ; he exhibited symptoms of 
exhaustion : he walked weak and staggering, and the pulse was 
100. He was ordered to have gruel, &c., to rally him a little 
to-day ; and the calomel, &c. balls were to be resumed on the fol¬ 
lowing day. 
For a few days he seemed to improve; he became more lively; 
and the pulse lowered to 70 : still there was something in his 
look that indicated lurking organic disease; and although I do 
not consider myself any great proficient in the practice of auscul- 
