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of Edinbiirgli, wrote — ^^A gentleman told me 

 that in the Carse of Gowrie (a large valley in 

 Perthshire) in the month of Septemberj before 

 this disease was perceived, the horses were more 

 than usually affected with cold and cough." In 

 regard to the same year, Fleming writes — ^' In- 

 fluenza appeared in Stirlingshire, in the north of 

 Scotland, in the months of September and Octo- 

 ber, and horses seem to have been affected with 

 cold and cough at the outset of the attack on 

 man. Yast numbers of horses died during this 

 year in London and neighbourhood from an epi- 

 zootic, probably influenza." Two years later, in 

 1760, influenza was again epizootic in Great 

 Britain and other portions of Europe. Fleming, 

 referring to this year, writes — "At the same 

 time an epizootic manifested itself amongst horses, 

 which affected, it is supposed, every animal in 

 the locality" (Cleveland, county Cork). It was 

 very fatal among horses in London in January, 

 as the chronicle of the Annual Register for that 

 month says, "A distemper which rages amongst 

 the horse makes great havoc in and about towns. 

 Nearly one hundred died in one week. Ophthal- 

 mia prevailed during the north-east winds of 

 April, and an epizootic amongst horses at the 

 same time, of the nature of an epidemic catarrhal 

 fever, which took its rise in the winter, and was 

 also common to other parts of Europe. It raged 

 in London and other parts of England in January, 

 February, and March, and seized our horses in 

 Dublin at the end of March. Moved westward 

 as other epidemics generally do, and on the 4th 



