Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-20
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IL Coughs In Mcmphis and Flour
fshes I'm Middle Tennessee.

IL Coughs In Memphis and flour
fshes I'm Middle rennessee.
The epizootic is certainly in Memphis.
At several of the public stables numbers
of horses are sick. Numbers Of hack
horses and buggy animals belonging to
private citizens are down with it. 1t
seems to be Of peculiarly mild type,
and but little danger is apprehended.
A few wise men yet hug the Elusive be-
lief that epizooty has not reached here,
and that only bad cold prevails among
the horses, but the majority OF
the horsemen admit that the bad
cold has assumed the epidemic form.
The Nashville Union and American
Of yesterday says:
No street cars have been running
through the entire day. Many a little
school girl had her cheeks roseated by
the biting wind, which rudely Haunted
in her face as onward she wended her
way to the school room. having waited,
but in vain, for the street cars, with
their tinkling, merry bells and comforia'
BILE seats. The South Nashville street
railway have not well horse in their
stable, forty now being sick. The
twenty horses OF the South Spruce sire Il
railway are all sick too, which were
worked after attacked, being now very
unwell. The same thing prevails among
the horses of the North Nashville street
railway, and yesterday not keer "
was TO DE seen, except those running
from Edgefeld to the city. The number
of horses now attacked with this disease
is estimated quite largely, and we do not
hesitate to say that there are three hun
dred horses and mules sick. While
mules have enjoyed comparative i'm
munity in the Northern cities, in
Nashville and the surrounding country
they have succumbed as readily almost
as the horse.
The disease has spread all over Middle
Tennessee, aud its history showing its
atmospheric origin, illustrates the fact
that it is needless to remain at home on
account of the Iepizootic. 1t appeared
at Gallatin on the same day that it was
detected at Nashville. 1t now prevails
in Summer county, Murfreesboro, Chris
tiana, Chattanooga, Pulaski, and Colum-
bia, and at Lynchburg, Virginia, folr-
fifths oil the horses are sick. At Nash
vile, merchants are delivering goods IN
wheelbarrows and coal merchants sup
ply their custo .ners in baskets mounted
on the backs of stout Africans.
HOW TO TREAT SICK HORSES.
The diet prescribed is warm bran
mash, while all dry food, as oats, corn
and hay, is excluded. Mr.. Bonner, Of
the New York Ledger and Dexter, gives
the following recipe for influenza in
horses: Tartar emetic, ii. 2. (eunces);
nitre, iy. z. tounces); mix.
An injection of weak gin and water
in the nostrils is recommended in the
early stages Of the disease.
The treatment at the Express stables
at Nashville is as follows:
Keep the animal warm and quiet,
without work If possible; feed on boiled
oats or bran mash, warm, with little hay
or some good straw; keep the nose clean
by haviHg it wiped and sponged out con-
stantly, using CASTLE soap or a weak So
luton OF carbolic acid and soap. The
disease not being in the stomach, is not
likely to go down the throat and wind
pipe, unless the animal swallows the
matter which, discharged from the head,
is very poisonous after the first few days,
or when it has assumed yellow color.
When the disease attacks the lungs, the
treatment is the same as in lung fever;
give ten drops of aconite every hour
until the horse is revived, or if this don t
effect relief apply liquid blister to the
jowl, throat, breast and lungs, both sides,
but not so strong as to take the hair off
The stalls must be kept free of wet or
moisture, using saw-dust to soak it up
and take it off Immediately. Feed light
and give plenty of fresh air, little
water often, not cold. Chloride of lime
is used about the stalls. Another rem
edy is medicine of the following com
pounds: Saltpetre, one.half ounce; sal
ammonia, onefourth ounce; tartar
emetic, FIVE grains. This must be made
up in a mash or mixed with bran and
given two or three times a week. This
must be used before the disease appears,
the first symptoms being cough, evil
IDENTIFY from irritation in the throat, fol-
lowed by discharge from the nose and
watery eyes, the hair standing up. When
the horse is attacked preparation of
ammonia and olive oil must be rubbed
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