38 The Management and Treatment of the fforse, 



published in Edinburgh : — " We believe it will not be 

 improper here to mention that the horses in and about 

 this place are being universally attacked with a running 

 at the nose and cough, towards the end of October and the 

 middle of November, before the appearance of this fever 

 of cold among men." The epizootic of 1732 was observed 

 in London by William Gibson, author of a New Treatise 

 on the Diseases of the Horse, m 1754. In Gibson's 

 account we have as accurate a description of the events 

 of the year 1873 as of those occurring one hundred and 

 forty years before. About the end of the year 1732 there 

 Avas a remarkable distemper among horses in London 

 and in several other parts of the kingdom. They were 

 seized suddenly with a vehement dry, sounding cough, 

 which shook them so violently that some of them were 

 often ready to drop down with hard straining and want 

 of breath ; their throats were raw and sore, many of them 

 had their kernels (submaxillary glands) swollen, and 

 were painful to the touch. For the first two days most 

 of them refused all manner of food as well as water, and 

 had so many other bad signs that when this distemper 

 first broke out, many were afraid of a mortality among 

 them. Indeed, the only good sign they had was the 

 vehemence of their cough, that kept the blood in motion, 

 and speedily set their noses running, and which generally 

 began the third day, and continued in a profuse manner 

 for five or six days. Some oi them in that time dis- 

 charged as much as two or three pails would hold of 

 purulent matter, which, however, was of a laudable 

 colour and good consistence. While the running at 

 the nose continued they would not feed much, though 



