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Lung- fever is noticed in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in the lum- 

 bering- region, and in Beaver and Montgomery; in Gloucester, Xew 

 Jersey, with more than usual f^itality ; in Kent, Maryland, of a mild 

 type; in Princess Anne, Virginia; Cass, Missouri, a few cases; Geauga 

 and Medina, Ohio ; Cass and Tuscola, Michigan, and Stearns, Minnesota. 

 In Fulton County, New York, a cartarrhal affection, accompanied by 

 croup, resulted in death in a few cases. Glanders is less knowu than 

 formerly; a few cases are reported in Xelson, Montgomery, Patrick, and 

 Fauquier, Yirgiuia ; iu Meriwether, Georgia ; in Hardin, Texas, it has 

 been worse than ever before ; and in Xoble, Ohio, a few cases are re- 

 turned. In several counties in Texas something like scours, in an 

 epidemic form, has been fatal. It is stated that opium and camphor, 

 administered early, is a very efficient remedy. Three per cent, of the 

 horses of Prairie County, Arkansas, have yielded to the insect pest — 

 the buffalo gnat. In Pike County, Illinois, an unknown disease, which 

 has been fatal in some cases, has for its symptoms stiffness of limbs, 

 sore mouth, and swollen tongue. Many horses in Williamson County, 

 Illinois, are afflicted with blindness. "Distemper" is reported in many 

 places, and isolated cases of tetanus or lockjaw, yellow water, colic, 

 and other forms of disease are reported. The following extracts fur- 

 ther illustrate this subject: 



Cumberland, Maine. — Some horses lost early in the winter by an nnusual disease — 

 taken with loss of appetite, general debility, a gradual sinking for several days, and in 

 some cases for several weeks. Most cases fatal. In some cases the animals had the 

 appearance of being poisoned with white lead. 



Hampden, Massachusetts. — A number of horses have died in one stable in Chicopee. ' 

 Syniiitoms: first, loss of appetite, which returns in a few days ; bunches as large as 

 walnuts come out on different parts of the body, and break and discharge putrid mat- 

 ter ; legs swell ; in three or four days tliei-e is a discharge at the nose similar to that 

 from the sores. Fatal in five to seven days. Xo cases of recovery, The disease was 

 introduced by a horse from Canada. 



Wash ill f/ton, Pennsylvania. — Distemper exists to some extent, also a malady called the 

 " throat disease," or the " head disease ; " six deaths occurred from it. Horses when 

 attacked refused food or drink until half starved, when the throat was much swollen, 

 eyes dull and heavy, head drooping, if forced to move, holding it in one position with 

 nose up and forward as if it pained them to move the head ; they would then eat no- 

 thing but choice food, swallowing with difficulty. Various horse Uuimeuts were used, 

 many cures were effected. 



Elk, Pennsylvania. — More than the usual number of cases of lung fever, or "catarrh." 

 Fatal in a majority of cases. Some of the finest horses in the county have died of 

 this disease. 



Doddridge, West Virginia. — Some unknown disease. Symptoms: swelling of the jaws 

 and head, which terminates in running sores ; the animal refuses to eat, loses flesh 

 rapidly, and soon dies ; no known remedy. 



Wilkinson, Mississippi. — A disease called " distemper," very contagious, malignant, 

 and fatal, has prcA'ailed for three months, and has not yet ceased, iu a part of this and 

 Amite Counties, and adjacent parts of Louisiana; the mortality has doubtless been 

 caused in great part by the treatment adopted. My own cases, and my sou's thirty 

 miles away in Louisiana, all recovered as- well as all others similarly treated, while 

 others differently treated mostly died. While using my saddle and buggy horses I 

 noticed first some difficulty about putting down the head and drinking, and external 

 swelling ov^er nasal canal, extending from near the opening of the nostril toward the 

 eye and resembling " big head." The coat became staring and harsh. The glands 

 within the space between the arms of the lower jaw and at its junction with the neck 

 and tonsils swelled ; the latter very much ; the former in some cases much and in others 

 little. There was also swelling about the larynx and pharynx so obstructing the action 

 of the muscles of deglutition as to render the swallowing of liquids very ditiicult and 

 in some cases utterly impossible. In attempting to swallow, a part, and as proved by 

 experiments, in some cases, the whole of the fluid escaped by the nostrils, and this, 

 whether the head were held up or down, while drinking. This continued from two to 

 fifteen days, (to attempt to drench in this condition is unwise, cruel, destructive.) The 

 loins were weakened and the hiud legs somewhat weakened and defective in action. 

 Opening the external tumors at any stage afforded prompt relief of all the symptoms, and 

 the discharge from a very small tumor was enormous, the pus being diffused extensively 

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