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ration stables, that had died of this dreadful influenza. About this 
time he sent for me again to accompany him to make another post¬ 
mortem examination of two other horses from the same place. He 
told me they had lost many of their best horses; that there was 
scarcely a day but there was one or more fresh cases, and that 
they fully expected the disease would go through the whole stables. 
I then ventured to say to him that he ought to adopt preventive 
measures ; he replied, he had already done everything that could be 
in that way; he had called in and consulted three of the most 
experienced veterinary surgeons in the town, and that notwith¬ 
standing a number of loose boxes had been built, and been in use 
for several weeks, and every fresh case had been immediately 
taken out from amongst the rest and isolated, nothing he could 
do seemed to arrest the disease. There had been three dead ani¬ 
mals during the last eight or ten days ; fresh cases kept occurring 
daily; that very morning a fresh case had occurred, so that it 
was quite natural to infer that the infection was as rife in the 
stables on that morning as at any time previous. He requested 
that I would meet him at the stables, and any suggestions I would 
make should be carried out. I met him, and the superintendent and 
liorsekeeper joined us in the stable. He showed me ten or twelve 
cases ; they had lost several others previously, as I was informed ten 
or twelve horses. The superintendent informed me they had lost 
fifteen horses, worth 3650 each. I related several precisely similar 
instances I had been called to in London and elsewhere, where my 
method has been entirely successful. I then observed there is 
ample ventilation in the upper region of these stables, but in the 
lower region where the horses breath©, the ventilation is very defi¬ 
cient indeed; there ought to be openings here and there on 
the ground surface (indicating where they should be made) for 
ingress of a large volume of fresh air. I also recommended coke 
fires in moveable grates, to be burned in the stables, from stall to 
stall, and in the loose boxes, for an hour or two a day, for a week 
or fortnight, for the purpose of consuming the miasma or malaria 
which no doubt existed in the stables. This was done at once. At 
the expiration of a week’s time the veterinary surgeon called upon 
me, and said, “Well, so far it is answering, it seems to be a success ; 
we have not had a single fresh case attacked since we adopted your 
method, which has been carried out strictly.” He did not on this 
occasion in the slightest degree allude to isolation having produced 
the change. At the expiration of three months I saw him again, when 
he informed me that there had not been a single fresh case since, and 
that those on hand had recovered, and at that time they had not one 
case of sickness on hand. Neither on this occasion did the word iso¬ 
lation ever once pass his lips, but to the pointed question I put to him 
as to what he attributed the change, he made me this answer, which 
seemed prompted by conscientious conviction, “Why, I think there 
caD be no doubt about it, it is the fires and the changed ventilation.” 
On the 22nd July, being eight months after my method had been 
adopted, they had not had one dead horse, or a single case of the 
