The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-10
Terrible Epidemic Among Horses.

We copy from the New York Metropolitan
Record ed ult.) the following article about
the great horse epidemic, which has spread
80 rapidly throughout the Northeast. AS
the disease seems to be travelling South |
ward, we would advise our readers to pre- |
serve the directions for treating the animals
mentioned below as being used in New
York:
The great sensation Of the week has been
the hors so disease, which, at the time we
write, is still causing alarm and inconve-
nience. Thirty Thousand horses sick and
unfit for work, must be, in city like New
York, a serious obstruction to business OF
all kinds. The stages and street cars can
not run their usual trips, the express COM
panies cannot deliver parcels, the merchants
cannot forward their goods, and the ship
Eowners cannot have their vessels freighted.
Business is at a stand-still, the streets are
deselate, shopping is deferred, and driving
ia the Central Park is suspended. People
are beginning to realize, for the first time,
how much New York owed to that useful
and valuable animal-how much the pros
perity of our city was bound up with the
weh-being Of a ,euadruped. In Boston
| oxen have been brought in to take the
place of horses, and this week will see
| some clumsy substitutes in our streets.
Boston has suffered terribly from the cpl
zoetic. So great, indeed, was the hindrance
to business that all sorts of expedients
were had recourse to. Not only oxen were
pressed into service, bat teams of men
| were harnessed to trucks, and q dummy
engine was permitted to ran through the
city. The first, and it is to be hoped the
enly case of the disease attacking human
beings, occurred in Boston on Saturday.
In Rochester almost every horse was af
fected; in Syracuse, Buffalo, Lockport,
Detroit, Newark, Westchester, Long Island,
the disease is spreading. Philadelphia has
escaped; New Jersey has suffered but little,
aud southwards the disease has made no
progress. The disease broke out in Canada
about the 9th uit, and spread with the
rapiaity of whirlwind. 1t lasts about
ten days, ard yields to rest and careful
: treatment. The following remedies, given
in a letter from the proprietor of the Inter
, national Hotel, Niagara Falls. to Robert
, Bonner, are those generally used in New
York:
Keen the horses comfortably blanketed and
quit working them. used powder twice 9
day composed of potash and tartarized anti
. mony (three ounces), made into twenty fou
powders. Keep the nostrils sponged out with
a ISOLATION OF vinegar and camphor and a littl.
!, AMMONIA Give soft feed, such as mashes ant
J., cut food. Do not give them any hay, excep
, such as ia cut, nor any dry oats In the hrs
> stages if severe give for the first two day
b two small doses of aconite, one in the morning
@ and one in the evening. They are good t.
y prevent any fever or disease from reaching tn
Out of every horse in this place having il
nj only one has died, and that from starvation
a and hard work, being turned out on the com
mon to starve aid freeze at night.
n The disease lasts about two weeks and gen
g erally the worst of it is over in ten days.
J., Don't fail to use COMMENSURATE on tn
;. throat, but not severe enough to blister. Al
u cohol and mustard or ammonia and sweet oil
q or even strong Imminent, are very good.
A little walk in your yard will do the horse
much good if they feel like moving; but don
II let them get warmed up nor drive them at al
D Of course you know all about it, but felt tina
d / must write to you about my experience. An
horse that is driven ought to be free froI
checking, q little chance to Craze is good fo
It them. The lower the head is in feeding til
o better. Take the chill off the water befor
lr they drink it.