American Veterinary Review, 
AUGUST, 1879. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
AN EPIDEMIC AMONG HORSES IN FORT RANDALL 
NEBRASKA, 185b. 
Statistical Report on the Sickness and Mortality in the Army oe 
the United States, 1 8r>5 to 18(IU, p. 41.* 
F. C. MADISON, communicated by K. F. IIensinger. 
“ In the attempt to enumerate the general epizootics of North 
America within the last ten years, a few local ones came to my 
observation, to which a more general interest cannot he attached; 
among them the following seems to me worthy of communication, 
because it in part seems to exhibit the obnoxious influences of un¬ 
cultivated soil, besides casting rather an unfavorable light on the 
military veterinary system of the IT. S. army, which consists in 
the greater part of cavalry. It is also the only veterinary ob¬ 
servation noted in these army reports, for a period of more than 
twenty years. 
Translated from the Deutsche Zeiischrift fur Thiermedicine, 1877, p. 101. 
