626 
ON THE EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA OF 1836. 
appetite somewhat improved, and the secretion of milk a little 
increased ; but she continues stiff and lame. Medicine as 
before. 
17th . — Recovering slowly. Medicine as before. 
19th . — She continues convalescent ; but she is yet sadly stiff 
and lame. Give once a-day al. Barb., ant. tartar., camphor, aa 
3j, pot. nit., sulph. sublim. aa 3iij. 
2 2d . — Rapidly recovering : neither so stiff nor so lame : con- 
tinue medicine. 
2hth . — Almost well : she is not at all lame, but is still stiff. 
Discontinue medicine. 
29th. — Quite well, except a little stiffness. 
Shortly after this she was taken to a different kind of pasture, 
wherein she rapidly recovered from the remaining stiffness, and 
has continued well to this day. 
It may not, perhaps, be improper to state, that this animal 
had been very ill nearly a month before my attention was called 
to her, and that she had had various medicines, chiefly of a cor- 
dial kind, given to her during that period, and a seton had been 
placed in her dewlap : but she became worse and worse every 
day. For a long time previous to this she had the peculiar stiff- 
ness, and other symptoms of this, generally, lingering malady. 
The situation is woody, and rather low, and very liable to produce 
this disorder, for the owner had scarcely a beast that was alto- 
gether free from the disease. The greater part of the land is 
good, and a quantity of it old meadow. The soil is of a red 
colour, and pretty plentiful in its products. 
ON THE EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA OF 1836. 
By Mr. Jos. Gutteridge, Carmarthen . 
Influenza has been very prevalent in this part of the 
country for these last three years, and great numbers of horses 
have been swept off by it on the borders of Cardigan and Pem- 
brokeshire ; that part of the country being much exposed to damp 
and to fogs, and the farmers rather poor, and which latter cir- 
cumstance has caused many an animal to be lost through want 
of proper treatment. 
I have constantly under my care more than 150 mail coach 
horses, besides which I have an extensive practice, and have 
consequently met with a great number of cases. In 1834 and 
1835 it made its appearance only in the spring and fall ; but 
in the present year scarcely a week has passed in which I have 
not had several fresh cases. 
