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of it. He thought of the influenza. “ It is surely coming to us,” 
said he; and in the course of a few days it did come. 
Mr. Holmes . — So far as he has observed in the College, or in 
his practice previously, if the pulse evidently indicated bleeding, 
no bad effects had followed from the use of it, but quite the con- 
trary. The pulse has fallen, and the horse has recovered. He 
has seen them attacked in the field as well as in the stable. In 
some the affection of the mucous membrane was confined to the 
eye, or extended slightly to the mouth. 
Mr. Cheetham . — He imagined that, if bleeding was ever ser- 
viceable, it was when only a small quantity of blood was ab- 
stracted, the loss of which, relieving the distended vessels, acted 
as a stimulus. Horses at grass are attacked by this epidemic; 
but they have the disease much more lightly than in the confined 
stables of London. He now sends his five miles away, and the 
symptoms immediately abate ; and the horse that, before, could 
scarcely move, is soon running about and kicking. 
Mr. Holmes . — There have been nearly two hundred horses 
with this disease in the College, and the greater part of them 
have been bled. Two only have been lost that have fairly un- 
dergone treatment here ; the other two were destroyed by previous 
bad treatment. 
Mr. Carlisle . — Has practised five years in Cumberland. He 
has seen the disease, both in the stable and the field. He always 
bled, and sometimes freely. The horse always appeared to be re- 
lieved, and he never experienced the collapse that has been 
described. 
Mr. Spooner . — It seemed to be acknowledged on all hands 
that this was an epizootic disease. All horses were liable to 
its attack, but some were more pre-disposed to receive it than 
others. It attacked them even in the open field ; but it was most 
prevalent, and most dangerous in stables, and where the horses 
were most highly fed. He agreed as to the two distinct charac- 
ters of the disease, symptomatic and idiopathic. He looked upon 
it as decidedly an integumentai disease ; but he could not view it 
as bearing so completely the character of erysipelas. It was more 
governable, and it was more local ; and the cases in which it 
arises from external wound or inflammation are few compared 
with those in which it must be traced to this obscure atmospheric 
influence. He agreed with Mr. Field, that the skin was in a 
state of extreme inflammation, and that the capillaries were 
gorged, and could no longer perform their natural functions. 
The mucous membrane likewise participated ; but the sensorial 
organic system must be previously affected, or soon implicated, 
in order to account for the violence of the symptoms. If the 
