Also 7 stranga’s, strangies. [Orig. pl. of STRANGLE sb.]
† 1. A disease in horses and other animals, characterized by inflamed swellings in the throat: = STRANGULLION 1. Obs.
1600. Surflet, Country Farm, I. xxiii. 137. For the strangles or glandules which happen vnder the oxe his throat,… plucke away their glandules, and [etc.].
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXVI. xv. II. 268. Sideritis hath a peculiar vertue for to cure swine of their squinsies or strangles.
1624. L. W. C., Perf. Disc. Horse, C 3. For the Strangles. Cut him betweene the Iawes, and take out the Kirnels.
1686. Lond. Gaz., No. 2154/4. Stolen…, a dark brown Gelding 14 hands high,… hath had the Stranga’s in two places under the Jaw.
2. An infectious febrile disease of equine animals, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus equi.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Strangles, the thick Humour, which young Horses void at their Nostrils.
1753. J. Bartlet, Gentl. Farriery, x. (1754), 104. The methods above recommended in the strangles.
1831. Youatt, Horse, viii. 123. Glanders have often been confounded with strangles, and by those who ought to have known better. Strangles are peculiar to young horses.
1891. H. S. Constable, Horses, Sport & War, 66. Every horse … during the time its throat is choked up, and nerves paralysed by strangles is a roarer.
1908. Animal Management (War Office), 313. Strangles is a fever of young horses, the prominent feature of which is an abscess which develops between the branches of the lower jaw.
attrib. 1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 515. The matter from a newly-opened farcy … is usually distinguishable from staphylococcus pus, and strangles pus.
