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of thirty) complained in the same way, the symptoms being im¬ 
perfect appetite, lassitude, at the same time painful swellings (of 
the same character as those mentioned above) appearing in the 
lower part of the extremities, particularly the posterior. They 
all recovered in about a week or ten days. 
Now it is quite obvious that the therapeutical value of this 
short report would hardly justify my occupying your time, since 
the course of this disorder, with few exceptions, proved to be a 
mild one. But the uniform attack of so many occupants in one 
stable was something new to me, having met it only in sporadic, 
but not in enzootic form. 
The influenza of 1881 is in some respects analogous to my 
cases; in fact, I take it to be the same, only of a mitigated char¬ 
acter, stripped mostly of the ophthalmic and enteritic complica¬ 
tions. 
Nearly all the animals affected in 1881 with influenza, popu¬ 
larly called “ pink-eye,” had more or less swollen limbs. In the 
majority these swellings were of a pseudo-erysipelatous character, 
and a small percentage of an oedematous type. As I intimated, 
before, the disease I met with may be genuine cellulitis. 
The title Dr. Meyer, Jr., chose for his subject, “ Epizootic 
Cellulitis ” (in the fifth volume of the Review), might have been 
improved; still, his nomenclature conveyed a better idea to the 
average reader, as to the kind of influenza he was to be informed 
of, than by using the universal term. Since making my observa¬ 
tions last June, I am obliged to differ with Dr. Holcombe, who, 
in an answer to Meyer’s article, attributes the tumefied extremities 
merely to a debilitated condition of the circulating organs. 
Regarding the cause 1 am obliged to keep silent, it being a 
mystery, and will remain so for some time to come. Still, some 
points are worth mentioning, namely: Both the stables in ques¬ 
tion are new brick buildings. The one might be called a model 
structure—the basement occupied by wagons, the first and second 
floors by horses; well ventilated and kept as clean as a human 
dwelling. The other, equally as well kept and ventilated, has its 
apartments where the horses are kept on a level with the street. 
These stables are located about a half-square apart, close to the 
