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 



