VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
707 
At its first appearance there was a depressed countenance, 
rough coat, slightly hurried breathing; pulse 50 to 00, but some- 
times as much as ILO, small and feeble; frequent inflammation 
and enlargement about the pharynx and larynx ; inability to 
swallow, the food and water rejected through the nostrils, the 
eyelids swollen, much weeping, blindness. The limbs stiff', 
tender, cedematous. Sometimes bloody discharge from the 
mouth or nostrils ; fever ; rapid prostration of strength, not from 
visceral inflammation. Tumours in various parts; legs enor- 
mously enlarged. 
For such a disease there could be no specific remedy. lie bled 
in large or small quantities, according to the degree of inflam- 
mation and the state of pulse, and repeated it until the inflam- 
mation was subdued. He inserted setons in the neck and the 
chest; gave from two to four drachms of Cape aloes, and after- 
wards slight diuretics composed chiefly of nitre, and farinaceous 
and succulent food of various kinds. He availed himself, if 
possible, of an open place, or change of situation. He gave 
no medicinal stimulants, for food was the best tonic in such 
diseases. 
The appearances after death were as different as could be. 
Pleurisy and hydrothorax, inflammation of the stomach and gan- 
grene of the intestines, congestion of the liver, congestion of the 
vessels of the brain, effusion on the brain, and sometimes total 
absence of all morbid lesion. 
In conclusion, it appeared sufficiently evident that stable 
malaria was not concerned in the production of this disease, any 
further than as a predisposing cause, or probably aggravating 
the symptoms and destructive effects of the malady. In the 
open, and, apparently, the purest air, and which the animal had 
breathed for many a week or month, he was occasionally attacked 
by influenza. Fed on every possible species of food, the animal did 
not possess immunity. We must look, therefore, to the air which 
they breathed, and that either being altered in the proportions of 
the gases by which it was composed, or empoisoned by mias- 
mata received from the earth. He had not met with any au- 
thentic account of the existence of the former to any considerable 
amount, and he was driven to the latter. He might have alluded 
to the influence of the seasons, of late so uncongenial ; but the 
epidemic had shewn itself, in some degree at least, before the 
unfavourable weather could have produced any morbific effect. 
There was another source whence pestilential vapours might be 
derived, and when he thought of the late frequency of earth- 
quakes in various portions of the globe (although not de- 
structive in our own country), he could not help thinking that 
