The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

38 The Management and Treatment of the fforse,
published in Edinburgh :— " We believe it will not be
improper here to mention that the horses in and about
this place are being universally attacked with a running
at the nose and cough, towards the end of October and the
middle of November, before the appearance of this fever
of cold among men." The epizootic of 1732 was observed
in London by William Gibson, author of a New Treatise
on the Diseases of the Horse, m 1754. In Gibson's
account we have as accurate a description of the events
of the year 1873 as of those occurring one hundred and
forty years before. About the end of the year 1732 there
Avas a remarkable distemper among horses in London
and in several other parts of the kingdom. They were
seized suddenly with a vehement dry, sounding cough,
which shook them so violently that some of them were
often ready to drop down with hard straining and want
of breath ;
their throats were raw and sore, many of them
had their kernels (submaxillary glands) swollen, and
were painful to the touch. For the first two days most
of them refused all manner of food as well as water, and
had so many other bad signs that when this distemper
first broke out, many were afraid of a mortality among
them. Indeed, the only good sign they had was the
vehemence of their cough, that kept the blood in motion,
and speedily set their noses running, and which generally
began the third day, and continued in a profuse manner
for five or six days. Some oi them in that time dis-
charged as much as two or three pails would hold of
purulent matter, which, however, was of a laudable
colour and good consistence. While the running at
the nose continued they would not feed much, though