362 THE PRESENT INFLUENZA AMONG HORSES. 
throat : the disease, indeed, might, in most cases, take the name 
of laryngitis ; some do occur, however, without this symptom. 
The sore throat is accompanied, perhaps preceded, by dulness, 
expressed in the eyes and movements of the horse, and by occa- 
sional cough, with fastidiousness of the appetite or actual refusal 
of food. In some cases rigor has been a precursory symptom. 
Seldom is there but trifling discharge from the nose, and often 
none at all. I have but in very few cases seen any thing like 
that profuse running from the nostrils which has so commonly 
characterized the influenza of former years. This may be called 
the mild form of the present influenza. 
When the horse is brought to us, not with sore throat alone, 
but with fever and all its concomitants as well — with dejection, 
loss of appetite, accelerated pulse, heat and dryness of mouth, 
unnatural warmth of skin, with or without disturbance in the 
respiration, or with dry short cough, redness of the Schneid- 
erian membrane, and only an appearance of discharge from the 
nostrils, or none at all, with, in fact, symptoms of bronchitis — 
then the attack of influenza may be regarded as of more import- 
ance, and of a nature to require skilful treatment. This alone 
has proved the character of several cases that have come under 
my observation since the commencement of the present spring. 
In some few instances the abdominal viscera have experienced 
disorder. An attack of diarrhoea, perhaps, has come on; or there 
has been, without any diarrhoea, pawing or other signs of uneasi- 
ness, indicating bowel complaint in the beginning, and, after- 
wards, sore throat and cough, and the other ordinary symptoms of 
the influenza, have appeared, and the case has proceeded in the 
regular manner. Many cases that have assumed the aspect of 
bronchitis in the first instance, and in which I might, had I not 
been forewarned of the consequences, been induced to bleed and 
otherwise deplete much, have, on the turn of the disease, ma- 
nifested such a tendency to prostration and debility — to that 
state well understood by practitioners under the appellation 
“ low fever” — that it has been perfectly evident that had I so de- 
pleted I should have done ulteriorly incalculable harm. 
After I have said that what we commonly understand by “ in- 
fluenza” may consist of a disease of one kind, or of another and 
quite an opposite kind, or may be even constituted of a complica- 
tion of diseases, it must be evident that any mode of treatment 
adopted must vary accordingly, and at one time or in one case 
be totally different from what appears requisite at another. A 
horse affected with the simple and just now prevalent sore throat 
and cough, unaccompanied by any febrile, or respiratory, or abdo- 
minal disturbance, will need very little medical aid. His throat 
