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

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 41
writes— " Influenza appeared in Stirlingshire, in the
north of Scotland, in the months of September and
October, and horses seem to have been affected with
cold and cough at the outset of the attack on man.
Vast numbers of horses died during this year in London
and neighbourhood from an epizootic, probably influenza.''
Two years later, in 1760, influenza was again epizootic
in Great Britain and other portions of Europe. Fleming,
referring to this year, writes— "At the same time an
epizootic manifested itself amongst horses, which af-
fected, it is supposed, every animal in the locality "
Cleveland, county of Cork. It was very fatal among
horses in London in January, as the chronicle of the
Annual Register for that month says— " A distemper
which rages amongst the horses makes great havoc in
and about towns. Nearly one hundred died in one
week. Ophthalmia prevailed during the north-east winds
of April, and an epizootic amongst horses at the same
time, of a nature of an epidemic catarrhal fever, which
took its rise in the winter, and was also common to
other parts of Europe. It raged in London and other
parts of England, in Januaiy, February, and March,
and seized our horses in Dublin at the end of March.
Moved westward as other epidemics frequently do,
and on the 4th of April it had become general in this
city, and continued to the end of that month. The
mules also were affected." The latter part of 1775,
was marked in England by an epidemic of influenza.
The historian of this epidemic, Dr Fothergill, of
London, with praiseworthy zeal, collected reports from
all his medical brethren in all parts of England who