TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 421 
with catarrhal affections which have become general, in 
tracing the history of the principal epizootics, they only date 
"with certainty from the year 172Q. In the month of April in 
that year the grippe broke out in Russia, and in October 
in Vienna. It also invaded Germany, Switzerland, Italy, 
Sicily, Spain, Mexico, and England, and it only ceased in 
the spring of the following year. Loew, in tracing the history 
of this catarrhal fever, says that it broke out in Hungary 
and Austria amongst the herds in October and November; 
that it began by affecting the head, and terminated about 
the fourth day by an epistaxis, a diarrhoea tinged with blood, 
or else the vomiting of stercoraceous matter. As the same 
phenomena are manifested in man, it may be fair to conclude 
that the malady and its causes are identical, with one excep¬ 
tion, hovrever—the vomitus stercoreus; this being indicated as 
general, raises a suspicion as to the perfect truth of the 
account. 
The epidemic of 1732-3 reached Scotland at the end of 
December; in January it broke out in England, where a 
catarrhal epizootic in the horse had preceded it. The cele¬ 
brated Huxham seems to have studied it with great interest, 
for he has accurately described its different phases. 
This epizootic broke out in September .—“ Angina tussiens 
undique inter equos quce plurimas stiffocat prorsus.” In October 
it had obtained its greatest intensity.— (i Jam morbus equornm 
scevit maxime ” In November it was stationary.— “ Adhuc 
morbus epizooticus inter equos,” —In December it began to 
decline.— “ Lues equina adhuc grassatur , sed immunita valdt 
est The veterinary author Gibson, who was contemporary 
with Huxham, describes the s} 7 mptoms still more explicitly. 
Toward the end of the year 1732, he says, a remarkable 
affection attacked the horses in London, and in other parts of 
the kingdom. The animals were sudddenly seized with a 
violent, dry cough, which shook their whole frame, so much 
so that some of them lost their power of standing, almost 
fell down, and w ere threatened with suffocation. The throat 
was principally affected, the glands were tumefied and pain¬ 
ful, and during the two first days the patients refused all food 
and drink. Other unfavorable signs were observed, which 
threatened a great mortality. The violence of the cough was 
often so intense as to cause the blood to flow from the 
nostrils. These haemorrhages generally occurred about the 
third day, and continued until the sixth, being followed by an 
abundant discharge of purulent matter, and this by one of a 
more healthy aspect. During the w 7 hole of this period the 
animals refused their food, more, however, on account of the 
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