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expectorated matter which covered it, as otherwise their 
appetites seemed good. . 
The salient characters of this malady were again found in 
the epizootic which visited Scotland and other countries. 
An epizootic catarrh prevailed in 1760 in Yorkshire and 
Cleveland, and although it lasted but for a short time, not a 
horse escaped the attack. A violent cough, with fever and 
a discharge from the nose, were the prominent symptoms. 
In some cases it was complicated with pneumonia, which 
terminated in death. 
At the same time there prevailed an epidemic respecting 
the nature of which there exists some disagreement. Accord¬ 
ing to Bisset it was scarlatina, and Hecker considered it to 
have been a miliary angina, in which sometimes the eruption, 
and at others, the inflammation of the throat predominated. 
The doubtful coincidence of a malady alike affecting man and 
the horse ceased in 1767, when the u grippe ” generally pre¬ 
vailed in Europe. 
At the time it broke out in London there was not a stable 
free from inflammatory catarrh. 
In 1775, the catarrh amongst horses and dogs preceded 
that in man. The disease in the dog, Lorry says, was evi¬ 
dently inflammation of the mucous membrane and angina. 
The epidemic of 1803 was preceded or followed by a 
catarrhal epizootic affecting the horse and the cat. The 
catarrhal fever in the feline species spread over the whole of 
Europe, and destroyed one half of the cats. 
One of the most remarkable epizootics was that of 1805, 
which prevailed simultaneously with an epidemic—the grippe. 
This epizootic has been described by several veterinary 
surgeons and different professors of the schools. The malady 
did not in all places assume the same characters, nor were 
its complications the same. As to its nature, it also received 
different denominations. Adynamic in the Duchy of Holstein, 
catarrh of the mucous membranes w T as complicated with 
pleuro-pneumonia, hepatitis and cedematous swellings filled 
w ith bloody serum. A sanguineous, purulent fluid also escaped 
from the eyes and nose. On the autopsia the lungs were 
found gorged with blood, sometimes hepatized and containing 
vomicae filled with purulent matter, at other times adhesions 
of the pleurae and effusion existed. The liver and the spleen, 
according to Vibourg, were in the same state as the lungs. 
The mucous membrane of the intestines was covered with 
brown spots. Based on this, the professor at Copenhagen named 
the malady, complicated putrid fever. In Austria it pre¬ 
sented the same characters, and was designated by Wollstein, 
