SIMILAR TO ASIATIC CHOLERA. 
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not look for exactly the same symptoms of derangement of 
their functions, although arising from the same causes. It 
is sufficient that the principal symptoms are similar, as well 
as the morbid appearances of the parts, on post-mortem exa- 
mination. Now I regret I cannot, after so long a lapse of 
time, give a minute description of the latter. On opening 
the abdomen of those that died in the first stage, in what is 
usually called enteritis, violent inflammation of the intes- 
tines was observed, less or more, approaching in colour to 
greenish blue, or black ; in cutting open the small intestines 
and stomach, the contents were only a whitish or yellowish 
thick viscid matter, and, when this was scraped off, the 
mucous coat was found to be very tender, and easily peeled 
off; on opening the caecum and large intestines, similar 
appearances were presented, with less or more feculent 
matter, of all kinds of consistence in different horses, except 
in the second stage, when it was always in a fluid state. In 
man, great stress is laid upon the rice-water-like ejections 
and dejections. Now, we know there is great difference in 
the blood of a horse when drawn, under any circumstances, 
to that of man under similar circumstances ; so also is there 
the same differences in all its products, whether in health or 
disease. Dr. Tytler, who was well acquainted with the mor- 
bid appearances both in man and goats — for what I know, 
perhaps, in other animals — was of opinion, this disease in 
man and animals w r as identical ; and I ventured to think so 
too, though I certainly should not have thought of expressing 
such opinion in print had I not seen that our opinions had 
been borne out by others in Mr. Marshall’s paper. Some 
seem to be of opinion there are two choleras , calling one Eng- 
lish, the other Asiatic. Now, take the facts as they are 
placed before us. Am I to call the isolated cases that have 
come under my observation in India English cholera , and 
those that were epizootic, Asiatic cholera ? There were no 
differences in either, that I should do so. 
In England, grain is so dear, horses are so much worked, 
stable management is so much better attended to, that this 
disease does not so often happen ; whereas, every veterinary 
surgeon who has been in India, is aware that this is the most 
fatal disease there. I happened to meet a friend, a veterinary 
surgeon of one of Her Majesty’s Regiments in the Ganges, and 
he told me he had had the misfortune to lose his charger, an 
Arab worth 1200 rupees, by enteritis, shortly before he left 
Cawnpore. The causes are without any specific agency 
quite evident : it matters not whether the stomach and intes- 
tines are directly disordered in function, by this pressure of 
