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pendent on the same cause as that which produces the con- 
temporaneous pestilence amongst men. 
Let us now examine a few of the reputed cases of cholera 
more particularly described in animals. No instances, as far 
as we know, have been met with either in cattle, sheep, or 
pigs. From November to March, 1831-32, as recorded by 
Mr. Dick,* seven horses died, one after another, at long 
intervals, in from three to five hours, having had violent 
watery purging, followed by coldness of the mouth, lips, 
tongue, ears, and legs. The blood became thick and treacly; 
the intestines, after death, contained a whitish slime In 
August, 1833, a zebra, in the Zoological Gardens, Regent’s 
Park,f died in five hours, after copious whey-like purging of 
a yellowish tinge, great prostration, and coldness of mouth, 
muzzle, and limbs. On venesection, the blood proved thick 
and treacly. Intestines contained a similar whey-like fluid ; 
blood black ; urinary bladder not mentioned. In September, 
1834, near Huntingdon,! a mare died after copious watery 
purging, much collapse, coldness, oppression of breathing, 
and suppression of urine. Two hours after the attack began, 
three quarts of thick blood were drawn. Sixteen hours 
after, the blood was too thick to run ; the pulse quite imper- 
ceptible, the tongue and lips blue, and cramps came on. 
Post-mortem examination very imperfectly made. The editor 
of ‘TheVeterinarian’ ventures to name the disease cholera, 
on the ground of its identity in many of the symptoms with 
the Asiatic form of that malady. In the harbour of Oporto, 
it is reported by Mr. Lardner, m.r.c.s.,§ that a racoon, 
removed perfectly well from a healthy ship to another along- 
side, in which cholera was raging, and of which the hold was 
very foul, was seized, after a few hours, with vomiting and 
cramps, and died. In October, 1847, a horse is said to have 
died in twenty-four hours, of excessive watery purging ; it 
had coldness and spasms, and the blood was tar-like. || Two 
other similar cases, though not fatal, are recorded by Mr. 
Cherry .^f It is stated by Dr. Schmidt, that he never knew, 
or heard from others, of the dogs or cats of families sick with 
cholera, being affected with the symptoms of that disease ; and 
we believe that common experience in this country would 
coincide with that statement. But a very interesting ac- 
count is given by Mr Bevan, m.r.c.s., of St. Ives, Corn- 
wall,** of a dog belonging to a poor woman, which, on the 
* Veterinarian, 1833, p. 144. f Youatt ; Veterinarian, 1834, p.427. 
+ Mr. Ball ; op. cit., 1834, p. 548. § Lancet, 1833, vol. ii, p. 301. 
|| Lancet, 1849, vol. i, p. 267. \itterinarian, 1849, p. 533. 
** Op. cit., 1849, p. 661. 
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