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than the skin eruption in measles. It has not been 
explained, I think, why measles should show themselves 
in the precise manner they are known to do. Such is the 
fact, however, and no person has attempted to deny it. There 
are certain diseases in man in which the lymphatic glands of 
tlie groin are affected. These become enlarged, and inflamed, 
and ultimately suppurate. It will not be said that these 
glands were primarily affected : nay, other parts were contami¬ 
nated, and they became diseased sympathetically; and in 
most cases, although it is a somewhat troublesome and 
annoying affair, the patient is not so liable to be left with 
that tiresome complaint, gleet^ when the glands are affected, 
as when the complaint is confined to the mucous surfaces— 
and so it is with the strangles. In my practice I have found 
that in all cases where suppuration of the submaxillary glands 
has taken place in a regular manner the termination of the 
disease has been speedy, and the patients have returned to 
health without leaving behind any unpleasant sequel. 
In the Veterinarian for 1842, page 154, will be found a case 
recorded by Mr. C. Percivall, entitled Disease of the Lungs 
and Liver and Abscess of the Caecum, the Sequelae of 
Strangles.'’^ I will transcribe the communication :—A bay 
gelding, four years old, under treatment for strangles, which 
had suppurated in the usual manner, w'as taken suddenly ill 
on the 13th of November, ISS?^ with symptoms of gripes; 
but they very soon went off, and he was to all appearance 
quite W'ell. In the evening he became again very uneasy. 
There was a small, quick j)ulse; respiration short and quick; 
coldness of the extremities; and he was frequently turning 
his head round to his flank. Six quarts of blood were with 
difficulty withdrawn, upon which he broke out into a cold 
sweat, that ran from him in considerable quantity. Stimu¬ 
lants were applied to the surface of the abdomen, legs, &c. 
On the following morning his breathing was much more 
tranquil, and he appeared, upon the whole, better. Towards 
the evening, however, he became decidedly worse again; very 
restless; frequently up and down; respiration sliort and 
quick; extremities and surface of the body icy cold, accom¬ 
panied with cold sweat. The venesection was again had 
recourse to, but it was with the greatest difficulty that four 
quarts of blood could be extracted. He died in the course of 
the night. 
Fost-mortem appearance. —The right lobe of the lungs in¬ 
flamed; the caecum inflamed, and the coats thickened to a 
very considerable extent, together with an abscess containing 
a pint and a half of pus. Tlie liver completely disorganized.^^ 
