OBSERVATIONS ON INFLUENZA IN HORSES. 183 
or flowing of tears from the inner canthus of the eye down the face ; 
swelling of the salivary (the submaxillary and parotid) glands ; 
swelling of the legs, with heat and tenderness in them, sometimes 
of the belly as well ; disturbed respiration, perhaps much more so 
at one time than at another ; rheumatic lameness of the joints or 
flexor tendons; bowels costive, sometimes the reverse, diarrhoea, 
and if not, commonly very susceptible of purgation ; urine voided 
in small quantities and more frequently than in health, and occa- 
sionally with some apparent difficulty. 
Anorexia — loss or failure of the appetite — is commonly the 
first sign observed (by the groom) of the horse being unwell : on 
coming to his stable in the morning, he finds the whole or part of 
the corn he had given the horse overnight left in the manger, and 
perhaps part of the hay as well in the rack, though it is not unusual 
for the whole of the latter to be consumed. This leads him to ex- 
amine his horse, and he finds him evidently “ amiss.” The ano- 
rexia likewise commonly constitutes a leading symptom either 
through the entire of the animal’s illness, or through the greater 
part of it, up to the period of convalescence. I remember one 
year when it was so remarkable a symptom, that it seemed almost 
of itself to constitute the disease ; the patient standing (without 
any very observable sign of indisposition) “ sulkily,” as the groom 
often expressed it, in one corner, “ obstinately refusing to take any 
thing,” no matter how tempting, that was offered him, or, rather, 
evincing not the slightest appetite whatever for many days for 
food : indeed, had it not been for their drink, and that in general 
was but water, in several instances the patients must have sunk 
from starvation. 
Languor, lassitude, depression, debility. To a man in 
any extensive practice, busy in the season of influenza running 
from patient to patient, there is something so characteristically 
striking in the countenance of the patient seized with the malady, 
that, the moment it is beheld, the same moment the disease is pro- 
nounced upon. “ It is the influenza.” Even were the graphic 
powers of my pen equal to the task, there would be no need for 
me to take up time and space in attempting to accomplish it : 
every veterinarian full well is acquainted with the downcast, 
gloomy, dolorous expression of countenance presented by the 
patient attacked with the influenza; though in some years this is 
much more remarkable than others. Of the late or present epi- 
demic I have had some cases that — as lookers-on have observed 
at thfe time I was called to them — “ appeared in countenance as 
though nothing ailed them ;” although they have shewn themselves 
“ amiss” by anorexia, and at the time have evinced the presence 
of the disease by manifesting soreness of throat, and the peculiar 
