The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-14
SIMILARITY OF DISEASES OF ANIMALS AND
MAN.

The Introductory lecture OF the winter session
before the New York College Of Veterinary Surgeons
was delivered last evening by Professor A. Large, in
the New York Historical Society building corner
Of Second avenue and Eleventh street. There was
a very respectable attendance, and the lecture was
listened to with earnest attention. although occupy
ing considerably over an hour in It's delivery.
The lecturer began with going back to the time OF
Aristotle, and quoted quite extensively from him.
showing marked similar pathological condition be.
tween the horse OK and man. He proposed to add to
the horse and OK the pig, sheep and dog, and connc
himself to these I'VE animals and their diseases
These animals were subjected to the same wounds
and bruises as man, and required for their cure
very nearly the same treatment. Similar causes
will engender like diseases in these animals and
man, as atmospheric changes, In diet, over ex
ertion and the like. varicose fevers were common
to the animals he had named. Large numbers OF
sheep were destroyed by smallpox in England In
1857 and for this reason he claimed that these AMI
mails frequently should, In being brought to this
country, be subjected to rigid quarantine. The
sheep should be kept apart from clothing or other
substances that had been exposed TO eruptive dis
eases. In this connection he referred 10 the cow
p0x and discoveries OF DIR. Jenner In reference TO
vaccination The same disease--that is, smallpox
exists among horses and might be communicated az
from the human subject. Many swine and sheep
have often shown disease like the measles. Scar.
latina, though considered among veterinary sur
geons as not existing among cows was, he was fully
convinced, distinctive disease OF the COW. Tie
spoke OF sore mouths being impaired to human
subjects by drinking the milk Of cows affected
with this disease. The typhoid state was
frequently shownnn domestic animals, as the nog
cholera among hogs and rnderpest among cattle
Since this last disease had shown itself in England
no less than two hundred thousand cattle had been
lost. The arrest OF the cattle plague was among
Of the greatest triumphs OF veterinary science What
was lately reported In the papers In this country as the
cattle plague was not the genuine disease, as shown
In Its not spreading as Is usual 10 this plague In this
connection he considered IL disgrace that there
so very few veterinary surgeons In this country.
Passing from this topic he spoke OF hydrophoba.
only In summer; but this Is mistake, as 1t appears
ia the dog at all seasons He gave bis theory as to
the proper treatment Of dogs supposed TO be afflicted
With the disease In oil cases where any person had
been bitten he advised not TO kill the dog, az II might
turn out not 10 be rabid-a fact which would give
Handers he pronounced this one OF the most infec-
Ious aud obstinate diseases known 10 veterinarians.
40 prevent the disease II was necessary 70 Kill the
a animals infected aud thoroughly fumigste the
=, 70, tne human subject A Russian lady,
who isugningy said her horse had kissed her, died
rom peing innoculated with the disease. He gave
o.ner instances OF similar fatal results TO human sub
},ahSc "a snos S 70 which the human subject is
mas. He gave instances OF Its contagion, as o horse
uIlnklng from roughs used In the cholera wards of
hospital. Consumption, In its varjous typee he
next showed entered alike among men and certain
After having shown the SIMILARITY OF tne diseaees
en-, 'merateI, among men and animals he proceeded
N a. VOW the dencency Ia attention to animal d,a
eases xisttng ~ TINS country aud enIoined more
EXTENDED. STUDY OF comparative diseases and
Ssnents res. lifting from this enlarged study he