ON THE PRESENT EPIZOOTIC AMONG HORSES. 253 
cases, either mild aperients, tonics, or venesection, as the symp- 
toms may indicate, will no longer be found injurious — the morbid 
action having now, in some measure, become localized. 
Veterinary Institution, Denzille Street, 
(Merrion Square.) 
ON THE SAME SUBJECT. 
By the late Mr. E. Price, of Cork . 
[Mr. Price was responding to our call respecting the character 
and treatment of the epidemic among horses in the sister 
island, when he was attacked by serious illness, under which, 
in a short time, he sunk. He requested that his unfinished 
Essay should be sent to the Editor. On his dying bed he 
thought of the welfare of his profession. It is inserted with 
all its little peculiarities, characteristic of the writer. Re - 
quiescat in pace!] 
There has lately been in our neighbourhood an epidemic among 
horses, very similar to that which I witnessed in England in 
1835-6, and about which so much was said and written, that I 
fear I shall have to relate very little new about it. 
There has been in almost every case a great tendency to de- 
bility, and particularly there has been effusion into the cavity 
of the chest, and congestion of the lungs. I should observe, that 
the weather has been exceedingly variable during the continuance 
of the disease. The horse is off' his feed, and very weak, and the 
breathing excessively oppressed — distressingly so on the slightest 
exertion. The pulse, in many instances, not more than 25, and 
very feeble. In other cases, however, it has risen to 60, but has 
been weak and intermittent. The extremities are mostly warm. 
When the patients have been neglected during the first five or six 
days, they have generally died of water in the chest ; and if they 
have been bled or purged to any considerable extent at the out- 
set, they have usually perished. 
I have found the following treatment very successful. I com- 
mence by giving a drench composed of from eight to sixteen 
ounces of linseed oil, according to the state of the bowels, with 
an ounce of spirit of nitrous ether, half an ounce of oil of juniper, 
and, as it is a cheap commodity in this country, from one to two 
ounces of old whisky. The external applications are liniments 
of turpentine and caustic ammonia in equal parts. Sometimes I 
have added to this a proportion of oil, but there is little danger 
of producing blemish or vesication. 
