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EDITORIAL. 
EDITORIAL. 
EPIZOOTIC INFLUENZA AND ITS SEQUEL2E. 
Another outbreak of epizootic influenza has made its appear¬ 
ance in different parts of the United States, and for the last few 
weeks has created more or less excitement amongst owners of 
horses. Like that of 1872, it covered quite a large extent of 
territory, and since its appearance in Boston, where it was first 
reported in the last part of September, has traveled southward to 
New York, and we are informed has spread to New Jersey and 
then to the Western States, and at last accounts was raging in 
Nova Scotia. Similar to the outbreak of eight years ago, though 
it appeared later in the season, it followed a period of hot and 
dry weather aiid exhibited itself by the usual external manifesta¬ 
tions of catarrh of the anterior air passages, laryngitis, cough, 
nasal discharge, &c. Not so extensive as the first, it neverthe¬ 
less will, we believe, be accompanied with more fatal cases, and 
has presented also more varied forms of complication. For in¬ 
stance : in Boston abdominal sequelae, we understand, have been 
quite common, and though this was also met now and then in New 
York, still in this last city, a more fatal disease has followed and 
carried with it a large number of horses, a state of things which 
can be easily understood from the fact that the people, not realiz¬ 
ing the weakening influence the disease had on the animals, these 
were kept at work though entirely unfit for it. Burpura hem¬ 
orrhagica has been and is now prevailing in New York City to 
an alarming extent, especially so, if it should develop itself 
amongst the numerous valuable trotting horses which are owned 
in this great metropolis. An idea of the mortality resulting from 
this sequelae can be obtained by the imperfect statistics gathered 
by some of the students of the American Veterinary College 
made from inquiries at the rendering dock in this City. At 
several visits made to that establishment, where the number of 
dead horses were received, the following figures were obtained : 
