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pervading epizootics of this disease can probably be abolished by 

 the extinction of the germ on the Continent. To achieve this 

 result an immediate large outlay would be well spent. In a new 

 generation, or a new century perhaps, this desirable object may 

 be achieved. 



Meanwhile the individual owner can do something to secure a 

 partial protection. On farms and in barracks the animals may be 

 secluded from all other equine animals during the local preval- 

 ence of the disease. Men, dogs, and wild animals can be 

 similarly excluded. Litter, fodder, bags, clothing, manure, 

 vehicles, etc., from infected stables and places must be carefully 

 guarded against. Newly purchased animals, carried in any 

 public conveyance, or kept or fed in any public yard or stable 

 must be quarantined at a considerable distance from others, and 

 treated by disinfectant sponging and fumigation before they are 

 allowed to mingle with other equine animals. Stables where the 

 disease has occurred must be thoroughly disinfected, together 

 with all manure made during the epizootic and for some time 

 thereafter. 



EPIZOOTIC CELLULITIS : PINK EYE. 



Williams follows a popular fashion in describing under the 

 above names an affection which may be only a form of equine in- 

 fluenza, but which may be named by itself until its true place 

 can be defined by proof of its actual pathogenic microorganism. 



Beside the general constitutional disturbance, this condition is 

 distinguished by marked hyperthermia (103 to 104 ), swollen, 

 congested, watering eyelids, cough, strong pulse becoming gradu- 

 ally feeble, firmly coagulating blood, irritable bowels, painful 

 passage of faeces, and, above all, a frequent movement of the feet 

 indicative of discomfort and followed by swelling, often excessive, 

 of the limb or limbs, by a cutaneous and subcutaneous exudate. 

 These various phenomena may all be but manifestations of the 

 rather protean disease, equine influenza, and the cellulitis but 

 variations of the rheumatoid and arthritic forms which are so 

 common in the regular type of that disease in cold or wet cli- 

 mates, or seasons. Williams claims that a prominent danger is 



