Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-19
aOLD EP.-,
He IS Marching On-PrellmiSary symP.
toms fn Memphis.
Having Sweeps over the Country, fresu
Boston 70 Nashville, Old Ep Motif
Bes HiB ~HnteEtfOn of Wis
itias Memphis.


itias Memphis.
AS was predicted by the Appeal and
Costello, "I.pn has come. The umoT
that prevailea about the town yesterday
OF the sudden appearance Of "Old Ep,"
seems to have q foundation in truth.
Many well-defined cases are reported.
At Costello's stables there are eight or
ten mild cases; but the symptoms are
unmistakable. There are fifteen or
twenty leases at another stable hardly.
The disease is not seemingly dangerous
or terrible. and Mr.. Costello thinks it
need do no great harm if the horses are
well cared for and kindly used, and pro-
tected against any exposure. They
should be well bedded, in close stables,
and have good prOvender. Mr, Costello
says that he thinks it right to give this
information, that people may have
proper warning and begin now to
take good care of their cattle.
Six or seven horses in the city were at
tackled Saturday night with something
like "0ld Ep,n but the doctors could
not agree among themselves "a to the
real nature OF the complaint. Not antil
five or six dozen have been Frustrated
with the Epihippic, viii the veterinary
gentlemen Of the city consent to accept
cod Ep" as a guest of the city. The
horse people of Memphis were warned
weeks ago by Costello and the APPEAL
that the complaint would come. 1t has
marched Over the Ohio with great ce-
I lerity, and crossing the State of Ken
lucky, entered Tennessee and seized all
Nashville's horses by the nose and
throat. Saturdays papers contain ac-
counts Of the manner in which "Ep"
acts. The Onion and american says:
yesterday morning it was officially
announced that the epizooty had at
tackled two of the Southern and Adams
Express Companies horses, and some ex-
element was created. When Barnum's
circus arrived in this city the express
horses had their food changed. Their
food, in fact, has been boiled and no
hay allowed. At the present writing,
five horses are affected with the disease.
The first indications of the disease We're
the hOarse coughings of the animals,
which also seemed drowsy, and have
since then looked as if tagged by over
work. Last night the bay horse coughed
up a quantity of white and discolored
matter. The glands of the black horse
are considerablyswollen evidently agi-
tated by epiplerosis. Liniment is freely
applied, and this horse, with the others
affected, kept in blankets. The bay
horse, since his attack, refused food until
last night, and while the frequent
coughing and grunting, with paroxysms
at intervals, indicate much suffering,
none of the horses have shown an in
clination to lie down. The appearance
Of this disease has caused some excite
ment, and it is believed other horses in
this city are already sick, but their
owners do not wish il known for fear Of
a general panic. Weunderstand several
l~ivery-stable men have sent horses to
the country, and others will follow"
This is bad enough; but in Louisville,
there is not a horse on his legs.
One good result which the times expe-
rience, is the absolute freedom from all
apprehension of reckless driving. 1t is
a noticeable fact, also, that not a run
away has occurred since the complaint
took possession Of Louisville.
Here is how indiscreet people get
served by relying on quack horse-dOc-
tors. 1t is a solemn warning to all
owners Of equine flesh:
On Monday, Gumbs's horse sneezed
in such a violent manner, three or four
times, that Gumbs sent for a friend who
knew about horses to come and look at
it. "Gumbs,n said the man, after ex-
aiming the animal, THAT horse has
the neutrality-suspicious.. You had better
paint his neck with turpentine and put
a hy-blister on his nOse.H
Gumbs followed these directions, and
the next morning the horses neck was
raw from the jawb1ne TO the shoulder,
and he had on his nose q swelling as
large as the horn of a ~rhinOcerOs. Gumbs
was scared, and sent for a livery-stable
man, who looked at the horse and said:
"Gumbs, there is nothing the matter
with that horse but little attack of hip
pOZymOsis! Just mix some mOlasses and
rum, and give it to him in his feed, and
he'll be all right tomorrow"
Gumbs gave him a gallon Of rum and
mOlasses, and that night his horse went
snorting around the stable with the de-
drum tremenS, kicked half the edifice
into splinteTs, and nearly choked HIM
self trying to eat the breeching-band.
Gumbs found the horse in the morning
in a more deplOrable condition than
So he called in q veterinary sur
geon, who cast his eye over the animal,
and observed to Gumbs, "Mr. Gumbs,
this is a genuine case OF hippotyphoid
laryngitis! What your horse wants is
cayenne pepper injected into the nos
trils, and hourly doses of aconite and ar
senic mixed, pint for pint, and fed with
cut hay.n
Gumbs Immediately went around and
bought a gallon of cayenne pepper and
a cart load of drugs. The horse sneezed
all night with such sorority and energy
that he kept everybody in the neighbOr-
hood awake; and, when Gumbs visited
the stable next morning, he was alarmed
to find his horses eyes terribly inflamed
with red pepper, and his nose worse than
ever, while the body of the animal was
swelled by the acOnite until it was as
round as a sugar hogshead. Then
Gumbs rushed around to another veter-
mary surgeon, and when he came he
viewed the horse for a few moments, and
AZ tell you, Mr.. Gumbs, your
horse has got the hippOrhinorrhea, and
got it badin
"Then of course the horse will die"
said Gumbs, I" if it has come to that"
mot necessarily remarked the doc
tor. "Just get a barrel of c~oal-tar and
and burn it under the horses
nose for a few hours to disinfect him,
then feed him and let him rest"
And Gumbs did. He burned that
stuff under the horses nose, and the an
imal suffocated in a quarter of an hour;
and when Gumbs came in to see how
the medicine was working, he found
the stable in flames and an underdOne
bay horse lying in the hottest portion of
the fire.
So Gumbs has lost his horse; and he
feels encouraged, because, just after the
FIRE was extinguished, another surgeon
came in, and, when he heard Gumbs's
story, he cOmforted Gumbs by remark
that there was nothing the matter
the horse in the first place, and
hat he was a deluded ass forever scrub
Ding the animal with %turpentine and
1listering him, and listening to the tales
IF the other lunatics who came there to
poison and sutfocate the unhappy brute.
NEW FEATURES.
The New York papers say ffVVithin
he last few days the horse disease, which
las caused so much trouble in the thou
of stables in this city, has devel-
)Ded a new phase, especially in the city
stables and among those horses
which had the least discharge from the
l~Ostrils. The general suppOsition is that
he matter, instead of being discharged,
passed into the system, and now pro-
iuces a species of drOpsy, the animals 1
Eggs and body swelling to an enormous
Iize. Several animals have already died
II great pain from thisnew evelopment
If the disease. The treatment adopted
5 rubbing the swollen parts with a lini-
nent composed of camphor, hartshorn,
md sweet oil, and light doses Of physic.
Several valuable horses which have had
he disease, and to all appearances had
recovered from it, have, on being taken
,ut and driven with some speed on the
Dad, been taken with a relapse, from
which they have died"
HORRIBLE DEATH FROM GOLD EP.r
A late Chambersburp PenDsvlvaniaAI