Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-10-28
Horse Disease.


to the exact nature of the disease, it is
generally conceded by the veterinary +
surgeons, to be species of influenza,
or sort of catarrhal fever In New York
city, within the first twenty-four hours
after its first appearance, no less than
seven thousand horses were afflicted with
it-attacking the animals so suddenly
-tbat-they drop down in the streets-and /
in consequence there is confusion all
around the city: with the canal boats,
horse cars, express business, public and
private stables, etc. In Montreal, To-
ronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Boston and
other cities the disease is spreading to
an alarming extent. AMI it is not by
any means confined to the cities. AL
though we have heard nothing of it in
Barton or any adjoining town, we hear
of it atSt. Johnsbury, Newport, Charles
ton and one or two other towns in this
part of the state. OF the disease at ST.
Johnsbury, the last Vermont Farmer
says: "The disease is spreading with
fearful rapidity. This Thursday NOR
ming, Drew's stables report forty cases 4;
Bryant's, eighteen; Trescott's, five, and
the Messrs. Fairbanks, thirty five" The
Farmer also says that 'Bean's stable
at Newport, has many cases, and there
are great numbers in private stables, all
through the northern part of the State. -
Though severe, the disease is not said to
be necessarily fatal. With proper treat
ment it runs its course in about ten days
and the animal seems none the worse for
having had it. Rest, warmth, and clean
illness are said to be necessary, however,
for any recovery. The first noticeable
symptoms are, a flow of tears from the
eyes, a watery discharge from the nose,
and general languor, followed by a
cough. A dispatch from Rochester, N.
Y, dated last Tuesday, says that COW
ing to improper treatment and an imper-
feet knowledge of the disease, three hun
bred cases have proved fatal in the past
twenty-four hours. The disease is on
the increase. There are but few horses
that are not affected. The street railway
company has suspended, every horse own
ed by them being sick. The streets are
almost destitute of horses Not a far
mer's team is to be seem" Among the
remedies which we notice in our exchang-
es, is the following in the Boston Globe,
which we copy
Prescription No. 1.-Linseed oil, l-2 ounces; tur
pentne IL ounces; liquor ammonia fort, ounce
Mix all together in fourounce bottle and apply to the
throat, if you think it necessary to do SO.
Prescription No. 2.-Ntrate potash, 1-2 ounces;
tartarized antimony, 12 digitas IL ounce
Pulverze all together and make twelve powders; give
one morning and night 1888. s.f
| P. S.-If they not very bad you might omit the
last Ingredient namely, digitalis. .I,t Esift
This has been tried, and gentleman who had Isl
horses saved them ALL
Since. the above was in type we learn
that every horse in Capt. Titles stable
and many other horses in this and al
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the disease. Friday nights Boston pa
pers state that New York city now has
$4,000 sick horses. We find the follow
! ing directions in the St. Adams Messen
ger copied by that paper from the Mon.
treal Fitness, for the treatment of horse.
affected by the prevailing epidemic.
keep them in the stalls keep tn,
| stables warm, 60 to IS degrees cloth,
the body and bandage the legs: Civ,
them whatever they will eat.
When the ears and legs become cold
with the pulse weak and the breathin,
quick, rub the sides we'll with ammoni
cal liniment, and give two fluid ounce
Of liquor ammonia acetatis, with half al
ounce of spirits of nitrous ether, in
bottle of Cruel, four times day Civ
5 also quart of good old beer three time
during the twenty-four hours. with a
much Cruel or linseed tea as can b
drenched into them, if they don't drinl
it.
On no account let them get chilled
either by being taken out of their sta
bles or the doors being left open; an
see also that the stable is kept perfect
clean, all manure Immediately removed
and the floors well busted with carboli
; powder. :
Do not force the poor staggering ami
: mails to work. Even if they do NO
g drop dead on the streets, as many hav
, done, and supposing even that they d
not die from the disease, the injury don
$ to the lungs and system generally will
: render them almost useless for the fu
S ture. Old horses more especially seer
to suffer from the congested condition Q
the lungs and weakened circulation, an
) require all care possible"