Influenza in Horses. 
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vade mecum, which should be in the hands of every occupier of 
a garden, or an allotment, who wishes to make the most of his 
holding. 
The Fruiterers' Company holds, and most reasonably, that the 
fruit acreage of this country may be largely extended, and also that 
the cultivation and management of many of the existing orchards and 
fruit plantations should be greatly improved. Mr. Wright endorses 
this opinion, and believes that "if the cultivators of this country 
proceed on sounder principles and more intelligent lines, the time 
will come when we shall to a far greater extent than now, and far 
more creditably, share in providing our population with the most 
wholesome of food, which will be increasingly required — Fruit — the 
outcome of home effort and well-applied labour in British garden8 
and orchards." 
Charles Whitehead. 
INFLUENZA IN HORSES. 
Under an old name a new disease has lately attacked the people of 
this country. Influenza has been known among us and our horses 
from remote times as a form of catarrh. " An influenza-cold " has 
always been a term in common use to express a severe attack of 
nasal and bronchial catarrh, associated with much weakness. 
The influenza which has come to us from the East — perhaps from 
China, through Russia, Germany, and France — has peculiarities, al- 
though it agrees with the old disease in some respects, especially in 
regard to the invariable depression, which its victims describe as most 
profound and distressing. It has also shown itself in the varying 
forms which have for so long been seen in horses. An attack of 
fever becomes complicated with disturbance of the digestive organs, 
indicated by vomiting and diarrhoea, with severe pain, the liver 
sometimes suffering, and also the kidneys. Congestion of lungs was 
a common and serious phase of the disease ; and, among other things, 
loss of power to regulate the movements of the limbs was often a 
special feature in the attack. Medical authorities say that the lately- 
prevalent epidemic is a novel disorder in this country, both in 
regard to its extent and peculiar nature. The outbreak in 1847 
is reported to have shown certain characters in common with the 
disease of 1889 ; but those who can speak from experience of both 
outbreaks, say that the first cannot be compared, in regard to its 
severity, with the last invasion. 
Influenza among horses is not a novel disease. Early veterinary 
writers describe it as a malady affecting horses in numbers, and in 
some instances causing great mortality. The descriptions which have 
