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bleeding at first, and the latter with aperients also ; and he says 

 his treatment was successful. 



We next avail ourselves of Mr. Youatt's admirable Lectures, 

 in quoting an account of an epidemic that prevailed on the 

 Continent in 1783. We scarcely know, however, whether we 

 are correct in styling it an epidemic, as it seems rather to have 

 been endemic, having been confined to particular localities, and 

 to have had reference to a poisonous and improper diet. Its 

 symptoms were low and malignant, its progress rapid, and ter- 

 mination usually fiital. In 1795, we find that a disease raged 

 in Paris and its vicinity, attended, as, indeed, almost all these 

 Continental epizootics appear to have been, with low typhoid 

 symptoms. Treatment was in general nugatory, and blood- 

 letting decidedly injurious; the evacuations were foetid, the 

 debility great, and death usually closed the scene. In 1815, 

 and again in 1823, we appear to have had a fatal epizootic in 

 this country, attended with swellings and ulcerations in various 

 parts, but we regret that no authentic account of these diseases 

 has been furnished. 



We next come to the pages of the Veterinarian, and find, in 

 the first volume, a paper from INIr. Brown, describing the epi- 

 demic as it came under his notice in the eai'ly part of the year 

 1828. In some measure it resembled, in other respects it greatly 

 differed from, the influenza of 1836. It was accompanied by 

 complicated inflammation, diarrhoea, and considei'able debility. 

 Mr. Brown found that an antiphlogistic mode of treatment alto- 

 gether failed, but a tonic and supporting system proved generally 

 successful. 



Mr. Gloag gives an account of an epizootic which made its 

 appearance in the regiment of huzzars under his care, and 

 proved exceedingly fatal. It does not appear to have been 

 influenza, but a disease of typhoid character, presenting from 

 its outset the greatest debility; forbidding the slightest depletion, 

 but requiring a supporting system of treatment. The latter 

 cases proved successful; but they were by no means attended 

 with such malignant symptoms as characterised the earlier ones. 

 In diseases presenting such analogy of typhus as this appears to 

 have done, it would be proper to consider it infectious, and to 

 avail ourselves of the fumigating powers of nitric acid gas, which 

 has proved so available in fevers of the human subject. — Ed.] 



Infi. 



uenza. 



[For several years past a disease has most extensively prevailed 

 amongst horses through nearly every part of the kingdom. 

 Though not, perhaps, entirely a new complaint, as some have 

 supposed, it is yet singular as regards its attack, sparing neither 



