New-York tribune., 1872-11-05
FUNERAL OF MRS. YINCENr cOLYER.
THE HORSE DISEASE.
puoGRyss IN THE United STATES.

IFS PROGRESS III THE UNITED STATES.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4.-Ihe horse disease
prevails here alarming extent The Second. Third,
UniOn Fifth, and Sxtlst. lines OF not running
today. The On the Chestnut and Wanui-st line
are drawn by tonight passengers having 20 pay Is
cents. The business interest s suffering considerably
Freight is accumudting the wharvCs and couno, tc
delivered Draymen who running their horses are
charging from $40 10 $50 per team per dy. NunDcr3 OF
fatal cases among tAe horses are occurring
CHICAGO, nov. IA cold, driving rain storm from tho
east set IN is afternoon, and has continued steadily
since with prospect OF abatiug. number OF deaths
among horses affected with the prevailing dstemper
were reported to-day Tho disease has appeared m
EIgin. H.. ana viii probably extend throughout the
country. large uumfcr Cf teams appeared on tie
street TODAY aud many more are on the'i way hvrc
from the interior Tic express companies and business
houses delivered arse quantities Vi goods to-day through
the aid oi these substitutes
PROF LAW oS TIE EPIDEMIC
Prof. James Law OF Cornell University
courc before the International Academy Of Science 90
Room n, Il Cooper Union, last night on "Tlc Ilor-e
Disease" The Chairman n introducing him stated that
this would Ice one of a series CT popular lectures m-
eltutcd by the Academy for the purpose Of elciung
uyol4r public interest IN Science and that this move
incrt was in concert with SIMILAR one al Bc-n. Much
o. Frof LAWS lecture was technical. and MOI Of the
highest popular interest. The following were its
general features:
The disease IS by no means e new one. Between rj
and 4l2 H. G. a similar disease ragged in Greece Ia.y,
and Sicily. 10 las also occurred ia s. D. $40, 1l13
l95q 1880 Qhen especially scycre), lines ia the four
eelth century, 90 times ~ the ffeeuh twice IN The
sixteenth times in the seventeenth Is times IN the
eighteenth and times in the nineteenth thus far
probably not frequently ia latcr tines but ap-
rsrenty so from the lack OF fun records earlier Some
times it has especially attacked horses, dogs, cats, and
oxen, and some tines man, II . essentially influenza
After Infection from 20 three days intervene before
ITS appearance. It's symptoms are sudden they dinr
according to the p-f attacked and The severity o. tho
attacks Sometimes the disease confines it-cif 20 the
throat sometimes 10 tic parts of the neck further back
sometimes 20 TIE lungs sometimes 10 the digestive or
gans and sometimes the tcLdOus and muscles Wien
il IL rheumatic IN its form. common symptom Of all
these forms is great wfakncss ana Osiraiou, tnnisp)
Jn 10 move halt-clcsed C a., relaxed limbs staggcr
The present manifestation Is LARGELY that of the throat
aud IS attended by coughing. Toe lecturer thought
that it could not be the res or rhton Of tho atuos
pherC, these could tun.du unchanged Tor the
length OF time that the d.sca rms nor 90 gases,
ingredients OF the air, for the NC become diluted
and pass away; nor cOu. Tempe fr lc ga cause, Tor
u had occurred under great yatt'G II heiumi cuhd
u0ns These and Other agertc' iuieiI hOHeYt l!ilit
its course after it, incePtOa j. true, thai Tor
the past Sew months buchcr5 had had unusual trouble
preserving meat, ana there must have been great
growth Oi fungi frOm ilplescryed mcat-but whether
Ills coincidence 10 WAS impossible to determine
The lecturer however, inclined 10 belief that tho dis
ease Was result Of poisonous OTgauic matter Tie
aunosphoIe-not probably utd, but rather morbid
matter,
As to It's prevention one method scompletc-he shut
ting mp OF the animal IN stable and the or dsin
iec.ants; Du This involved trouble and expense, ami,
The dses. j. now Light in form. hc Jugt the animals
should ho exposed. The ttabics fhOu,I Doe closed and
general prevcntlyes employed, such as he burning OF
times Gay. Again. rest aud proper remedies where tho
animals are attacked are essential Tie lecturer de-
tue methods Of treatment. Tic morse is finely
ganzed amin "a the surface exposed 10 the air Ia lis
lungs is about 900 square feet and, since lac often
oycrwOTcd and BADLY housed TX not strange thn suoh
diseifos dhoct biih WIN peculiar severity.