The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-12-13
Ihe Horse D.sfgD..
THE SANE THING rF-,-.--
bHaD AND IWENra.g....'',,'..'' .g7t
1900 aLsE.

g. THE SANE THING r.F~r-...-
bIHD AND IWENrs .g....'' nv7r
The horse distemuar I-sr.a.
vera in This city. Irr.-.. ae--. +
/ towns 10 has been rurgrr. .'t-
: down ana iurauars-. ..-...
the horses and ,Urgi.-- ...
comparatively few. s
Most people believe anil
rlany obs"ry that tHf. -..-. -l7=
O. horses is something ...-s-.r.- s #
p--CedCuted. But lher-a-. O.
haps the time has long r.-..r -
was anything new; Dnssa.rf--
ease IS not. It prcvaiI-E r-. r
one huH0rcd ami tJseufl.t-..... .-.r-.
seems TO have been just tl.s....
as now.
Then, as now, it followed
hot summer that is fo -..r
for the locality where cu- g-.....
That oUr last summer s..... ....... .----
hot is established 10y car-lrr.. ......-
which show il to have b-aa .5..
over one hundred years.
Then, rs now, il occurred -a.-
weather was over-thou-L 10 g r.--s...-
later in Great Britain. po-r.yr...t II
the difference Of climate
Then, IS now, il was ''tLe most.
and universally spreading Gl~-a.
horses that any one living r-ra.r.r.-. :.
Then, as now, il was .'u-ar.g a-.'.-
fhe iutiueuzs and caLagr4a. lar.---.
mankind.
Then, as now, it seized the amin.
4 violent cold, with heayiu.-~ r..,
lite, cough and lahorious Irgrrs-
then 4 proTuse running II th-ur~.--5-
of a dgeSted OF thick yellow gr-....
ter"
All these points, corresuoudErr r-.
with the disease - il now u.u.|-... .
are laid down III "a treatise on ~.
Plaques their History. Mature ----
VeutiOu," ," by George Fleming. T p
&c--a standard authority.
The following Is Mr.. FIsmiug 5aS--
of the disease, as it manifested .,.a.fr.
land
A II. 1T50-In ireland the sur.r-r
amt backward. Summer, eNeen, ~
ceasive hot days, cold, moist and VIII.
but some days in June were the -l5--H
the memory Of man" The same.
tOrled OF July, hen Eahreul-.-',..--I
cler. a. Ou the former occasion. l.s-
cuty-six degrees. y memorial al
~ = AAA ca bAl AAAF --rBNA VI ~ ~.
cold. About the middle g- Le--a-z
December, the most ep.dru.- and r.--
ly spreading disease arnnHg horses .. J
Que living remembered. .aaf- lis am. +.
/ in Dublin which seems -a have. f.-..-, q
analogous to the iutiuau1. and aa-s--.-
/ Yer ich seized mankind in ra. r.g-
and 17i3, but now particularly s.. -..
I horses IN their turn. as mag -ru-a-I-s.-
. rtrF.gIrs Of i.4t r-....s.....s .r.. r..
[ peaTed in England III Nuy-mh-- --. ~
through England almost .n au 5-,---
toward the end OF the month h-.-rr ...-
1t ragged in Denmark a rh- sam. r.--
did not reach oUr horses iu ua --
decline In England a. tha rim. l.5z =
toned, having probably been imu.--
was nearly OF IAe same duration hers
England however, IL atI-, ,r.I rL- 81.
Munster and Ulster almost. l.r.- ri
soon as in Dublin, ana There was -a-.
iussTuce of a horse in tun- ny ...--
bad it," II seized the animals -
len: cold, with Leaviucss JOS, or r-'
CoE&h and laboriouS hr-a-hin- a
prOiuSe running at the nose and s..-.
d'gested or thick yellow. -T-ru.,l "A
upon which they grew better. IaEs
rs well as here, il did not prove y----
tao""h some died oi Z. TIL. a.a-l
horse in the city was imUut-. -a---.
uSe of medicines and too J. -l L-
any maliEuity in the disaa--- t.-.-r
SeTvab!e that very few died iu -I-.
ard particularly none That n--
grass 1t vanished about the middle
uary, 1751."
II il this country the disca>s l- n
a. soon after its appearance asT-. --s
ing to the above account, j ..-..
dTed aud twCuty-twO year ~. 0rn
OF horses, To say nothing 70 f1.>.v-.a-
" or indirectly, are benefited .-
which includes everybody. w... s-.-.T
occasion to rejOice--E-ctaHgs