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

40 The Management and Treatment of the EEorse,
fever which seized mankind in the years 1737 and 1743,
but now particularly attacked the horses in tiieir turn,
as may appear by a comparison of their respective
histories. It had appeared in England in November
and spread through all England almost in an instant,
and toward the end of the month began to abate. It
raged in Denmark at the same time, but did not reach
our horses in Dublin till its decline in England at the
time before-mentioned. It affected the horses in
Munster and Ulster almost if not quite as soon as in
Dublin, and there was scarce an instance of a horse in
the town or country but what had it. It seized the
horses like a violent cold with heaviness, loss of appetite,
cough, and laborious breathing, and then a profuse run-
ning at the nose and mouth of a digested or thick yellow-
greenish matter, upon which they become better in
England as well as here." In the epizootic of 1750
post-mortem appearances similar to those described in
1873 in the epizootic then raging, r p\ir r p%ira hemorrhagica,
were noted by an author named Osmore in u A Treatise
on the Diseases and Lameness of Horses" (London, 1766).
His words are, " On many of these I have made several
incisions ; I found in all ot them a quantity of extravasated
serum lodged between the skin and the mem-
branes." In the year 1758 the influenza was both
epidemic and epizootic in Great Britain. Dr. Kobert
Wytt, of Edinburgh, wrote— " A gentleman told me that
in the Carse of Gowrie (a large valley in Perthshire) in
the month of September, betore this disease was per-
ceived, the horses were more than usually affected with
cold and cough." In regard to the same year, Fleming