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them until they had been fumigated, white- 

 washed, and otherwise cleaned. Solleysel desig- 

 nated it a fi^vre pesUlentielle^ very deadly at 

 its commencement, but afterwards amenable to 

 medical treatment. A catarrhal fever had been 

 epidemic the previous year. Again, the years 

 1688 and 1693 were marked by epidemic in- 

 fluenza and epizootic influenza. In 1712 the 

 horses of Europe were again attacked with 

 epizootic influenza, but the records collected 

 are very imperfect. It was not until the year 

 1727 that the records notice the erratic or in- 

 vasive character of the disease. This peculiarity 

 is noticed in a chronological history of the 

 weather and of the prevailing diseases of 

 Dublin, by Mr. John Kutty, M.D., London, 1770. 

 He says, " In [N'ovember in Stafi'ordshire and 

 Shropshire horses were suddenly seized with 

 cough and weakness, disabling them from work. 

 In December, both in Dublin and the remote 

 parts of the kingdom, horses were seized with 

 a cough and shortness of breath, and sometimes 

 sore throat ; some bled at the nose, others had a 

 large discharge of thick phlegm from the nose, 

 which, being long-continued, was salutiferous ; 

 some died in the streets, partly through improper 

 medicine. In 1732 influenza swept over Europe 

 and North America ; its effect on mankind, and 

 its progress from place to place, are fully and 

 carefully recorded." It was also epizootic, as 

 appears from the following extract from Medical 

 Essays and Observations, published in Edin- 

 burgh : — "We believe it will not be improper 



