, 1872-11-19

The Purpura-HBmorrhagia Max
ing no Headway Among
the Equines.
Result of a Visit to the Street Car and
Stage Barns---Mr. Parme1ee's
Experience.

Aaf9 Id 6EtJ ~AV Hs1 4%f 0-I&tEHtOtFt%Lk9tsLs
is not developing among the horses Of the city
as vas anticipated, and it is but just to say that
those who had prophesied its appearance ex-
press themselves as most agreeably disappoint-
ed, the while remarking, however, that tive do
not know what day may bring forth.'
But since the events Of one day are the resnlta
Of previous days, it seems not unreasonable to
presume that the pu1pura will remain in the
city but long enough to show what it might do,
if it saw ft to exert its power, and seems satis-
fed to vent its spleen upon the horses Of New
York. Indeed this city seems to have escaped the
severity with which the epizootic purpura has
existed in New York. There the mortality among
street~car horses from epizootic was two per
cent, while the fatality from this latest scourge
: has been very great. In this city, the mortality
among street-car horses has not beon one per
cent, and the dropsy has resulted fatally in but
two cases. The writer is inclined to believe that
the mildness with which these diseases have
PaiE''a e1s Of the this supsszor psz ta' II 5s
horses. There arc no travelling ca1casses
il front Of street-cars in Chicago, as in New
York, and in this city discharge follows inhu-
uaane treatment BY drivers. New York lines buy
condemned animals, while Rtrcet-car lines in
Chicago vie with each other IN the superiority Of
their stock.
Mr. parmelee yesterday informed TRIBUNE
takon city; that while we have been stabling our
epizootc horses, ly-blistering their breasts, and
tormonting them with attentions, we ought to
have given them little work, more Of fresh air,
and less tender treatment by "out.", but he
would use less severe remedies and moro sim
pic, and keep install only those animals
which we're too weak to walk out. This theory
he has bnilt up On the remarkable fact that his
most serviceable horses are those which the
character OF Lis business compelled him to
Su1;
them, and further, that all his horses arc at
regular work, with the exception of sixteen
head, every one Of which have hnd the ten
derest care, have been in the barn since they
While this is important information, It but
tends to involve the veterinary gentlemen IN yet
greater difficulty in their efforts to understand
the character OF the equine disease known as
the epizootic. Dr. Rauch Says that dropsy
is the last stage OF the epizootic, but
whose constitutions are weak, either from age
or abuse. He does not anticipate any serious
development of purpura in this city, believing
that cur horses have had such treatment ea that
constitutions but little impaired, and that our
horsemen are generally possessed both Of that
Judgment and humanity whereby they will use
no animals with dropsica1 tendencies.
4 TRIBUNE reporter yesterday made general
circuit Of The principal public barns Of the city,
and makes the following report:
Yonng's barn is yet free from dropBical signs,
his horses being in the best possible condition.
The 2. i. P.>barn, on Twenty-ffth street, has
one case Of puf-purd, while there are two cases
at the Twenty-ninth street barn.
The South Side car barns contain eleven rur-
pura horses. DR.. Wlthers says that not one OF
these have been worked, and that they are I'M
proving. One horse has died in these barns
from dropsy. He says TINT the first case ap-
peared in their barn quite ten days ago. They
are determined that no fears of the drospy af1ct-
ing their horses ehall lead them to withdraw
them from work, but that they shall run them
till the effect seems to be injurious.
Yesterday morning, after rest Of quite three
TeeLs, the horses OF the North Side car limo
we're again put in harness. 4 friskier set OF
horses were never seen. They pranced along as
it they we're attached to royal carriages, and, in
deed, many Of them would have done honor to
The West Side line as yet make no promises.
The Superintendent thought that perhaps they
would run few cars on the Clinton street line
today, and might resume travel IN n part upon a
the Madison street line tomorrow. He said that
il few cars only were. placed upon the Madison
street line they would be SO crowded with pas
sengerB that with the horses in their present
condition, he would be compelled to put four
pull that would result in injury to them.
THE ATWOOD PLACE HORSES.
]. q. Simpson, in charge Of the horses at Da-
vid A. Cages, Atwood Place, near Riverside,
reports that all his fine stock are passing quietly
and easily through the epizootic. From Logan
down to J. A. Rices pony "Tood1os" all the
animals have taken turn at it, and Simpson
thinks that if the bear had not run away and
been shot for marauding among his neighbors'
bee-hives he would have joined the process
sion. He insists s,-simpson, not the bear,-that
blood will tell, even in this disease, for
his choicest pets seem to go through their
troubles better than the common herd. He says
the tendency in most stables is to trent and dose
to death, and would rather see epizoot and
dropsy together come into Atwood barn than
the pests called yeterinaries, who are trying to
this connection it deserves to be stated that J.
S. Stough's fine stud of horses at Hinsdale hare
thus far escaped the disease altogether.
En6hcTHM