If there is much fever, and evident affection of the chest, and which should carefully be distinguished from the oppression and choaking occasioned by the pressure of the tumour, it will be proper to bleed.
A few cooling medicines, as nitre, emetic tartar, and perhaps digitalis, may be given, as the case requires. The appetite, or rather the ability to eat, will return with the opening of the abscess. Bran-mashes, or fresh cut grass or tares, should be liberally supplied; which will not only afford sufficient nourishment to recruit the strength of the animal, but keep the bowels gently open. If the weakness be not great, no further medicine will be wanted, except a dose of mild physic, to prevent the swellings or eruptions which sometimes succeed to strangles. In cases of debility, a small quantity of tonic medicine, as camomile, and gentian with ginger, in doses of a couple of drachms, may be administered.—The Horse.
Strangury, s. A difficulty of urine, attended with pain.
Strap, s. A narrow long slip of cloth or leather.
Straw, s. The stalk on which corn grows, and from which it is threshed.
Strawcoloured, a. Of a light yellow.
Stream, s. A running water; the course of running water; current.
Stretcher, s. Anything used for extension; the timber against which the rower plants his feet.
Stride, s. A long step, a wide stretch of the legs; the pace of a horse.
Stringhalt, s. A sudden twitching and snatching up of the hinder leg of a horse much higher than the other.