Strangles.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 112, 5 June 1883, Page 3

Strangles.

As a large number of horses are lost every year through ■ improper treatment of this disease, a few lines on the nature and treatment may be ot service to settlers situated out of reach of a veterinary surgeon It attacks young horses chiefly, and is characterised by sore throat and cough, a thick yellow discharge from the nostrils, and the eruption of a hard inflammatory tumour between the branches of the lower jaw, which matures, and in about ten days from the first appearance of the disease bursts. Treatment : Keep the animal cool, but not old; encourage him to eat bruised oats, boiled barley, carrots, or whatever he prefers for nutritive food, by maintaining tbe health and strengh favors the formation ol the ah cess. Avoid bleeding, physic, <fee, for they only interfere with the natural cause of tbe malady, which must run its course, bteani and foment the head, and unless symptoms of suffocation appear the abcess may be sately allowed to burst ot itself, li the tumour does not come forward properly blistering may be bad recourse to, and tonic medicine given. '