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ON INFLUENZA IN AMERICA. 
was hot and clammy, evacuations normal. On auscultation 
no increase in the bronchial rale, nor crepitation were detected, 
neither was there dulness on percussion nor pain on pressure 
in the intercostal spaces, indicating the absence of pneumonia, 
pleurisy and congestion of the lungs. 
From the extraordinary quickness with which the respira¬ 
tions were carried on at so early a stage of the disease I was 
afraid that something more than an ordinary attack of 
influenza was approaching. Accordingly, and at the owner’s 
request, I proceeded to examine the remainder of the horses 
in the stable, thirty-one in number. I found ten out of that 
number with yellowness of the visible mucous membranes, 
six of the ten had in addition a watery discharge from 
their nostrils, pulse slightly accelerated and soft, respirations 
normal; the Schneiderian membrane was a little injected. 
All of these horses ate and drank as usual; they were not 
heard to cough and there was no soreness of larynx. I should 
have mentioned that the first horse alluded to stood in a well- 
ventilated loose box at the furthest end of the stable. The 
ten others w r ere in stalls in different parts of the stable, and 
with the exception of only two instances there were not more 
than two affected horses standing in adjacent stalls. All the 
eleven horses in this stable were ordered on warm and 
succulent diet and warm clothing. Disinfectants were used 
freely about the stable and manure heap; carbolic acid was 
the agent used. In the meantime a draught was administered 
to the first horse alluded to, composed of Spt. iEth. Nit. ^iss* 
Liq. Ammon. Acet. 5iij> Tr. Aconiti Flein. guttae xv, Aquae 
Oj. The throat and course of the trachea were stimulated 
with Lin. Ammon. It was found necessary to repeat the 
draught every eight hours. 
On the evening of the same day I again visited the stable 
and found the animal in much the same state. On the 
morning of the 14th he was much worse, the pulse by now 
increased to 78 and very weak, the breathing more laboured 
and frequent; occasional griping pains were noticed, indi¬ 
cated by lying down and suddenly rising, pawing with fore 
feet, &c. iEther. Sulph. Jj was added to the above draught 
as an antispasmodic, and in a very short time, indeed, a 
marked effect was produced. The aether was easily detected 
in the expired air, and the respirations and heart’s action were 
much improvedboth in frequency and character. Thehorse was 
examined when in a quiet state, but during the spasm the pulse 
ran as high as 100 in a minute. The six horses from whose 
nostrils the aqueous discharge was flowing on the 13th were 
all coughing on the following morning. Their pulses were 
