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westerly direction. Certain portions of the country did not receive this 

 contagion until during- the first months of 1873. Some of oar reports 

 embrace the first experiences of the malady, while others chronicle its 

 secondary visitations or its chronic results. It is not always easy to 

 distinguish which of these is intended. In the ISTew England States a 

 few counties experienced for some months the injurious effects of the 

 disease, but generally the horses of these States were in a healthy con- 

 dition. In York, Maine, stabled horses that had suffered from the first 

 attack, had swellings in their legs during 1873, but farm-horses gener- 

 ally escaped. In Piscataquis, the disease was confined to horses em- 

 ployed in lumbering. Mild visitations are reported in Oxford, Maine ; 

 Caledonia and Eutland, Vermont ; Tolland and New London, Connec- 

 ticut. Few deaths are noted. The Middle and Atlantic coast States 

 present nearly the same general indications. In Xew York, Albany, 

 Livingston, Warren, Niagara, Saratoga, and Seneca Counties report a 

 limited extent and mild type of disease, as also do Sussex, Hudson, and 

 Cape May, New Jersey. In Camden, New Jersey, there was a disease, 

 probably a modification of this influenza, which considerably resembled 

 colt strangles, but it affected old horses also. The presence of the dis- 

 ease, or of some of its chronic effects, was noted in Washington, Center, 

 Clearfield, Clinton, Chester, Berks, Armstrong, Wyoming, Somerset, and 

 Dauphin, Pennsylvania ; in Sussex, Delaware ; in Wicomico and Queen 

 Anne, Maryland; and in Eappahannock, Sussex, King William, Rus- 

 sell, Page, Highland, Patrick, Scott, Albemarle, and Powhatan, Virginia. 

 In some cases only over- worked and ill-treated horses were diseased. In 

 other cases horses in good condition, that had escaped the first visita- 

 tion of the disease, were affected by its reactionary influences. In North 

 Carolina, Lincoln, Pasquotank, Wake, Dare, Caswell, Henderson, Stokes, 

 Ashe, Jones, Iredell, and Buncombe report a partial prevalence, with 

 inconsiderable losses, as also Georg<;town and Eichland, South Carolina ; 

 and Laurens, Pickens, Gilmer, Dawson, Johnson, Liberty, Early, Cow- 

 eta, Walker, and Jefferson, Georgia. 



In Florida, Jackson, Columbia, Gadsden, Wakulla, and Orange 

 report mild visitations ; as also do Smith and Tuscaloosa, Alabama ; 

 Lee and Coffee, Mississippi ; Palo Pinto, Colorado ; Eed Elver, 

 Victoria, Burnet, Washington, Galveston, Polk, and Uvalde, Texas; 

 Searcy, Columbia, and Woodruff', Arkansas ; Lincoln, Humphreys, 

 Hancock, Wilson, Johnson, Williamson, and De Kalb, Tennessee ; 

 Barbour and Preston, West Virginia ; Clarke, La Eue, Trimble, Hart, 

 Jackson, and Mead, Kentucky. In some counties the secondary attack 

 degenerated into glanders, in all cases fatal. 



The infliction was light in the few counties north of the Ohio Elver 

 in which it was reported, viz, Adams, Mercer, Vinton, Eoss, and Perry, 

 Ohio ; Van Buren, Michigan ; Dubois, La Porte, Martin, Union, and 

 Scott, Indiana ; Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Madison, Franklin, Clinton, 

 Piatt, McHenry, DeWitt and Knox, Illinois ; Saint Croix, Washington, 

 Dane, La Crosse, Ontonagon, Eau Clair, Dunn, Crawford, Buffalo, and 

 Columbia, Wisconsin. In some cases the disease showed a decided 

 tendency to dropsy. West of the Mississippi it was marked by the 

 same limited range and mildness of type, being frequently styled 

 the dregs of the former visitation. The severe demands upon horses 

 in the labors of agriculture in some localities have somewhat aggra- 

 vated the symptoms. The presence of the disease is noted in Dodge, 

 Blue Earth, Benton, Martin, McLeod, Stearns, Faribault, Steele, 

 and Waseca, Minnesota ; Woodbury, Black Hawk, Humboldt, Poca- 

 hontas, Lee, Jeftersoji, Mower, Muscatine, Decatur, Marion, Marshall, 



