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

42 The Management and Treatment of the Horse,
were disposed to respond to his printed circulars
calling for information. These reports are to be found in
Dr. Thompson's annals of influenza. The disease
prevailed from the middle of October to the middle ot
December, 1775, and it appears from the following
extracts from the above-mentioned reports that influenza
was epizootic among horses in the preceding August
and September. Dr. Fothergill, writing in London,
says, " During this time horses and dogs were much
affected, those especially which were well kept. The
horses had severe coughs, were hot, forbore eating, and
were long in recovering." Dr. Williams, of Dorchester,
writes, "After the middle of August I have heard
from good authority that a disorder among horses
prevailed very generally in Yorkshire." Dr. Thomas
Glass, of Exeter, writes, "I have only to add that in
these parts of the country, in the month of September,
many horses and dogs were severely afflicted with colds
and coughs." Dr. Haygarth, of Chester, writes, " About
August and September, in North Wales, almost all the
horses were seized with coughs." Dr. K. Pulteney, of
Blamford, writes, "I heard much ot horses and dogs
being afflicted before we heard of it among the human
race."
The following quotation from Fleming's work refers
to the year 1782 :— " An epizootic of influenza appears
to have prevailed in Europe at the same time as the
epidemic in man." Huveman observed and reported upon
it as it manifested itself in Germany ; and Abilguard, the
talented founder of the Veterinary School at Copenhagen,
has left an admirable monograph of this disease, which