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of blood. The owner fortunately declined his further assistance, 

 or he would certainly have destroyed the horse ; for, as it was, 

 in the succeeding night severe purgation ensued, anticipating 

 which I had left some medicine to counteract it. The appe- 

 tite, which a few hours previously had been improved, was now 

 totally gone, and the animal appeared in the greatest debility. 

 His recovery was, in consequence, very much protracted. 



" 6thly. Is the influenza infectious ? 



" This question will admit of no absolute demonstration. We 

 must content ourselves with reasoning on the facts that may 

 come before us, and be satisfied with approaching the con- 

 fines of probability. After a few scattered cases, I was called to 

 attend a pony at some livery stables. A few days afterwards I 

 had another, and, in all, nine cases in these mews. At this time 

 there were no other cases in the neighbourhood of these stables, 

 but six weeks afterwards I attended a case at another mews not 

 more than 100 yards distant from the former, and here I had, 

 one after another, five cases. 



" In the establishment where I had the greatest number of 

 cases, there was a young horse in whom the approach of strangles 

 was indicated. He was removed to the hospital stable, in which 

 were several horses with influenza. He remained there eight or 

 ten days, getting on pretty well, when he suddenly showed the 

 symptoms of influenza, in addition to those he had before, and 

 his pulse rapidly rose from 46 to 80. This certainly looks like 

 infection. On the whole, I am disposed to regard the disease 

 as infectious, believing, at the same time, that the greater num- 

 ber of cases are produced from the same unknown atmospheric 



cause." 



There are several other viseful communications on the sub- 

 ject of influenza in the Veterinarian, together with an interesting 

 debate. — Ed.] 



CHAP. XLIL 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



Glanders. 



This is a contagious disorder, and one that Is generally thought 

 incurable. 



[Its symptoms are a discharge of matter from one or 

 both nostrils, and enlargement of one or both submaxillary 



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