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suffering as we are ; they furnish our support and promote our 
pleasure. Has not the Creator cast them upon our care and 
placed them under our protection ] Have we done our duty by 
them ] Can we render a good account of our stewardship ] 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1851. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The return of spring has, as usual, brought with it “ Influ- 
enza” among our horses, and, as it has proved to us, earlier in 
the present than in former years in general. Indeed, in situa- 
tions where young horses have been standing, the winter 
months have been by no means free from cases of the sort, 
though the more general outbreak of the distemper, calling for 
the appellation of influenza , has not come on until March and 
April. To us, the influenza at present prevailing has not 
assumed any fresh features, nor has it proved, in general, by 
any means fatal in its character ; though the knackers’ carts 
have been of late more busy than for some previous months 
past, as they commonly are “ spring and fall,” and no doubt, in 
a great measure, from casualties resulting from influenza. As 
far as our own practice has extended, we might, if we at- 
tempted any symptomatology of the disease, apply the same 
account to it as that we gave in The VETERINARIAN in July 
last of the more alarming epidemic then prevailing, viz. that 
“ the throat is the seat of soreness and suffering ; the disease 
thence, in some instances, creeping down into the bronchial tubes 
and alighting upon the thoracic membranes ; while in others it 
vents its violence chiefly in the head, either through continuous 
profuse discharges from the nose, or a critical outburst of an 
abscess in the throat. Now and then (in young horses) 
strangles come on, and in some (few) instances a tedious and 
troublesome nasal gleet remains; cough being the usual at- 
tendant all through the complaint.” 
