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HIPPO-PATHOLOGY. 
A Table shewing the particular Months of the Year in which 
Horses appear most subject to certain organic Diseases. 
MONTHS. 
Disease of 
the Lungs. 
Disease of 
theBowels. ; 
Disease of 
the Brain. 
Disease of 
the Eyes. 
January 
CASES. 
20 
CASES. | 
12 I 
CASES. 
1 
CASES. 
10 
February 
25 
8 ! 
— 
9 
March 
23 
11 
1 
7 
April 
19 
10 
6 
10 
May 
13 
3 
3 
9 
June 
14 
16 
1 
13 
July 
13 
13 
3 
19 
August 
11 
23 
3 
17 
September 
11 
1 5 
10 
19 
October 
24 
3 
3 
9 
November 
19 
10 
3 
9 
December 
16 
9 
1 
4 
Totals 
208 
123 
35 
135 
From this synopsis it appears that pulmonary diseases prevail 
most during the autumnal and winter seasons ; that bowel com- 
plaints occur oftener in summer than in winter; and that this 
latter observation is still more applicable to disorders of the brain 
and eyes. 
The comparative fatality of diseases constitutes yet another 
link that may be usefully appended to this chain of inquiry. 
Searching for the deaths in one of the Registers from which the 
foregoing tables have been compiled, we find, 
Deaths from Pulmonary Disease 77 
Deaths from other Diseases (Glanders and Farcy and Accidents 
excepted) 57 
According to this calculation, pulmonary disease carries off more 
horses than all other maladies besides, setting glanders and farcy 
out of the computation. It must not, however, be understood that, 
because more horses die from pulmonary disease than from all or 
any other, ergo, in reference to the diseases themselves, separately 
considered, that it is the most fatal ; on the contrary, pneumonia 
is not of itself so dangerous a disorder as enteritis ; for were horses 
