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The following quotation from Fleming's work 

 refers to the year 1782: — "An epizootic of in- 

 fluenza appears to have prevailed in Europe at 

 the same time as the epidemic in man." Huve- 

 raan observed and reported upon it as it mani- 

 fested itself in Germany ; and Abilgaard, the 

 talented founder of the Veterinary School at 

 Copenhagen, has left an admirable monograph of 

 this disease, which he had ample time and oppor- 

 tunity of studying, during the period it aff'ected 

 the King of Denmark's stallions. This epizootic 

 did not reach England, or if it did, we can find 

 no record of it. For the year 1797 Fleming 

 writes, "Influenza was very severe in New York 

 and Philadelphia, and over a large tract of that 

 continent; at the same time there was a great mor- 

 tality among the horses in Maryland." During 

 the prevalence of epidemic influenza in 1803 all 

 kinds of domestic animals seem to have been 

 afl'ected with unusual diseases, but it is impossi- 

 ble, in the Annals of Influenza (pp. 213 — 215) to 

 find good evidence of epizootic influenza among 

 horses. In Mr. Barlow's remarks occurs the fol- 

 lowing statement in regard to influenza among 

 horses, " It reappeared again among horses very 

 extensively and severely in 1815." John Field, 

 of London, records the remarkable prevalence of 

 the disease in 1819 and 1823. Since that time 

 and up to the present, we find many records of 

 its occurrence in the Veterinarian. It is singular 

 that although of late years scarcely twelve con- 

 secutive months have passed without many cases 

 being observed, yet at intervals of four years in- 



