A treatise on the strangles and fevers of horses : with a plate, representing a horse in the staggers, slung / by Thomas Prosser.

  • Prosser, Thomas, active 1790
Date:
1790
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Credit: A treatise on the strangles and fevers of horses : with a plate, representing a horse in the staggers, slung / by Thomas Prosser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    young horfes only have the ftrangles; Sind thefe diforders are not fo certain. Very many more efcape the hooping-cough than do the .fmall-pox, very many horfes never have the ftrangles; it is by no means fo certainly infeftious as the fmall-pox, but perhaps as much fo as the hooping-cough; ,there feems to be no more analogy between the ftrangles and fmall-pox, than their hap- pening but once; and that circumftance holds alfo with the hooping-cough, and the infeftion in thefe diforders; the hoop- ing-cough and ftrangles, have this Jingu- lariiy, of being infeftious only to the young. The ftrangles we reckon the only innate diforder of horfes, by which we mean, the only diforder the feeds of which are born with the conftitution: (man has mcjny, as the fmall-pox, meafles, chicken- pox, and hooping-cough,] and no circum* ftances in life contribute in any meafure . . to