Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-30
The Horse Disease.

New YORK Oct. 24-Fullv ninety
per cent of the horses in New, York and
Brooklyn are suffering from the Ell.
demic Three stage lines and two
street railways have suspended. and
others will probably do so Tomorrow.
Several carriage stables are closed al
together, and the supply is far behind
the demand. The Astor House closed
its stable this morning and till noon
ran only one coach, which was then
hauled off AMI its place taken by a
team brought from Brooklyn Many
other hotels are in a similar predict
ment Strangers arriving in or leaving
the city are much inconveoienced.
According to the best attainable esti-
mates 10000 horses are suffering from
the disease in this city alone. Many
stablemen, railway and omnibus mana.
gers, and other persons controlling
| horses. refuse information about the
disease on the ground of not wishing
to alarm their patrons or making their
business public. Hardly any stables
are free from disease, and in fully
three fourths of them every horse is
affected. Comparatively few horses
have thus far recovered, and nearly all
taken sick yesterday are much worse
to day. Owners are more respondent
than yesterday, though thus far deaths
have been omparatively few. The
northeast storm which was expected to
remove the disease has not done SO,
and it is found that animals most ex-
posed are the worst sufferers Many
sporting horses in private stables and
at Prospect and Jerome Parks are af-
fected, among them American Girl.
Captain Jinks, Sronewall Jackson,
Lady Wheeler, Darkness ond Froblsh-
er.
BUSINESS SUSPENDED IN BUFFALO.
The horse epidemic is still raging in
manaer unparalleled. The railroads
notify business houses that they must
cart their own freight from the depots;
the street rail road company are Sc
riously embarrassed and will have to
suspend operations if the disease con-
tinues The express companies are in
a bad fix, while the business of the liv-
cry stable keepers, hackmen, cartmen
and teamsters generally is almost eli
tirely suspended. The veterinary sur
geons are very busy, and work inces-
sanity. The epidemic is in fact a
great calamity, and the business inter-
ests of the city will suffer materially by
its continuance.
STATEMENT OF A VETERINARY SUR
We received a call this morning
from Dr. William Somerville. the well
known veterinary surgeon Of this city,
who has Just returned from Toronto,
where he has been to investigate the
disease, it's duration and termination
DIR. Somervile called upon Dr. Smith,
of the Veterinary College, whoinformed
him that the disease first broke out in
| Toronto three weeks ago last Friday.
Within day or two Dr. Smith had
fifty cases, and three or four days later
it was raging throughout the whole
country. The streets of Toronto were
deserted at one time, and business gen.
orally was suspended. DR.. Somerville
ascertaiued that the duration of the at
tack is from tN enty to Thirty days, and
in light cases the animal RECEIVERS soon
er. On post mortem examination of
the disease in the dissecting room of
DR. Smith, it was found that the mu
cous surface of the trachea. were high.
" inhamed, and that the disease exten.
ded to the lungs, thus producing con-
gestion and death.
From his personal observations, DR..
Someryille considers the disease here
of much more virulent form than in
Canada, and the symptoms of lung dis
ease more frequent. He requests US
particular y to warn the public against
administering oil, cathartics, or nauseat-
ing medicines of any kind to horses af-
fected - Commercial Advertiser.
THE SYMPTOMS AND REMEDIES EN-
PLoYED.
The symptoms are: in the early stages
staring Coat, dry or hacking cough,
moving with reluctance, and general
dullness nasel membrane at first pale.
watery discharge from one or both nos
trils; ears and legs cold. AS the
disease advances the membranes be-
come highly colored; the discharge
from the nostril changes to mucous
of greenish or yellow color; the
pulse, which at first was low, is quick
ened, and in some cases obstructed
and labored. Should the animal be
kept at work, the disease, which in its
early stages is local, with light catarr-
hal fever, and confined principally to
the bronchial tubes, will be exterded
to the chest; the covering of the lungs
: (pleura) will be involved, and the
symptoms of pleurisy, and disease of
more formidable character to contend
with, Immediately follows.
The treatment is as follows: First,
stop working the animal when in the
stable keep the body warm by cloth
Ing give warm bran mashes and chill
led water apply an exciting embro-
cation on the windpipe. from the throat
to the breast: in the early stages give
stimulants, but when the disease advan-
ces and the pulse become quickened,
sedative medicines will have to be Civ
en- to arrest the iufammatory symptoms.
Cathartics and nauseating medicines
should not be administered. Bleeding
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