Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-11-01
HIPPOMOBIFIC.
The Disease in the City.

Nearly An the Stables Infected--CurutIves
Used By Drs. clever and PaImer.
The horse malady continues to excite the In.
terest Of those engaged with and owning the
equine stock, and although there cannot be said
70 be any distinct cases Of the disease found to
exist In the city, still such a large number or
animals have been found presenting tho premon.
Itary symptoms a. TO lead stable men and those
converuant with the disease to take prompt pre-,
oautiOnary measures, and u the plague cannot
be avoided 10 allow the animals 10 suffer with II
In a. mild form a. possible.
II fumor had been given any credence, q per.
son might have readily supposed that nearly all
the horses In the city were suffering from tho
epiEootio innuenEa; but our reporter, protesting
70 trust tO his own experience rather than tho
biased Judgment Of others, yesterday again ro-
paired 10 the various stables throughout tho
city, and, while not single horse was found
symptoms were exhibited that warranted tho
stable keepers In bostoWinH upon thom closer
attention than heretofore given. Al the Metro
tesnth street and New York avenue, three OF
four horses out Of their large stock were trou-
bled With only flight cough, AZ the Oolnm.
bia stables, n and Boundary streets, thore was
not sick horse Of any kind.
Az the stables Of the Washington and George
town Railroad COnpauy,in which there are kept
s53 horses only sightWsre found sick, and two Of
Adams Express Company has two coughing
and two lame.
MoOilntook'sexprSssh horses, eleven in number,
are all froe Of colds
ltnoEb thirty i've are Just as fortunate.
The sixty horses owned by the Great Falls Ice
Company have escaped thus far.
In the livery stables tho horses seemed to have
suffered much more than those Of tho railroad
THOMAS aeary, In Jackson Hail alley, has a
stable OF forty hoIsas,siX Of which arc coughing,
| J. W. PumphreyN stable, on q, between -Four.
and-a.hali and sixth slrsetAdoes not escape quite
s&,y h0 sS%o a. If
been in this condition two or three days without
showing any change for the worse.
AZ Flemlng,s stable on III; opposite side Of the
i've have been deteated with the cough.
John Price Bro, on Sixth street, between
Louisiana avenue and o Freet has but one
case at present, but does not anticipate escaping
In BSrrlck's stable, on Eighth street, above
ID, Mr.. Andrews has I'VE horses. all Of which
are sound. At James Keieh0r's, on the same
| square, towards tho next eorner, are iorty-fyo
horses, among which q bw cases have been
noticed, II, Want In the stable directly oppo.
site, has forty horses, and three had this cough
/ ing sickness, Adjoining .s the stablO Of J. h.
Olcott d Son, containing brty horses, nearly all
| Of which are coughing and troubled with q
| slight running At the nose.
W. 7. Nallor, on + strest, between Thirteen
| aDd-a- half and Fourteenth, accommodates about
my horses, among which some coughing cases
have also been noticed. o.
| The stables Of ID. Broughton, on Z, between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, contains
| thity horseS ~ OF when are Wen, -
| Reyes Smlth, on fouileehtn street. below
| sueeI staOlo one hunafeu anu Two hOrsesi
| out nave NO cases ~, ,-,- 49,
| Allson naior' Jr', on street between Ihir-
| teeh-g,ha-ahal anu fOutteentn sIoeu, STA
| PIES slNty;three hOrses, anu noucou hNe yester-
uAS uouoie sI Mltn me eosgh. r, 49,, ..,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth, have about elgh.
| teen cases OF coughing horses.
There are q foW other stables, which were not
inspected, but these arc sufficient 70 show that
the disease thus far In our city is Of mild tenn
perment, and with proper precautionary meas.
| ures may DO kept under control.
DIR oLEvERB TREATMENT.
DR.. W. Z. Clever sends us the following CON-
| munioauoni
promised In my last 70 give the appropriate
remedy for this disease. Afler II has fairly Is.
tablished itsolt, It being an "atmsspheTle dis.
ease, the blood must DO yitiatod, and this nc
oumulatod vital action centres Itself principally
| on mucous surfaces. We should keep the body
warm and comfortable and bAndhge the legs,
giving nutritious food, such ha potatoes, apples
cold water sWeetened With mOlatses, OF In met
| anything the horse Will eat that 10 easily dl.
| gested. When the fever Is high, cough hard
and Dry, and the disease 10 It's primary state
| and the patient staggers, the throat should bs
blistered, and have placed on tho tongue four
times daily one soruplo OF English extract Bella
donna for two days, then give three times daily
FOwler's solution Of arsenic In half ounce doses,
/ In one gallon Of cold water. When the breath.
Ing Is much disturbed and the animal is not too
weak, a few doses OF opium and calOmOl may DO
| tried, or hyo drops Of Flemlng's tlneture Of
aconlto, with drAchm Of extract OF BelladonnA
and Jour draohms OF Nitro may DO repeated every
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