The New York herald., 1872-11-14
TIE HORSE DR0psY.

rhe LSAest Form Of the Episootic-Mr.
Bsrgh Indignant-What II the
Dropsyt-Doctors' ENTHUSIASTICALLY
or the New Complies ation-Drcadfsl APP
prehensions.
Mr.. Bergh is dsconsolate at the condition TO
which the dreadful disease has brought his dumb
and faithful fyote0Ss He says that the most
recent complication Of the epiZootc is but the re-
suit OF the cruel manner in which the horses were
treated while sick and utterly unit for work.
TIE PUBLIC WAS MIsLED
In regard to the disease, by judging OF 1t from the
condition OF horses in the streets. He accounts for
the improved appearance OF the horses by saying
that sound horses were to be seen, because the
epizootic had killed 30 many OF those that were
sick.
The latest development in the epizootic Is most
alarming. Just as all the veterinary doctors were
At sea when the disease nrst appeared, they are
now at q loss to understand whence arises this
present troublesome complication. Various
opinions are given as to
THE CAUSE OF THE DROPSY.
Indeed, they are SO many and so various that 1t
is useless to attempt to get at anything like an
explanation that would be satisfactory. One
surgeon viii tell You that this dropsy is simply the
old form OF dropsy that comes generally at this
season Of the year. ana has no connection what
ever with the ,erizootic. Another, with eqaail
erect which should follow from the debility Incl
dent to q typhoid fever, which the epizootc was.
only % Complication" Co Of the epizootc~
like what was anticipated-and not only is 1t i'm
possible to trace it to any other cause, but there is
Many MORE "coMPLrcAnoNsn
we yet may have as further consequences. Such
various opinions these are prevalent and IN TACT
every stable and nearly every veterinary surgeon
has theory OF his own on the subject
character appears from the number OF deaths that
have occurred during the week The disease in Its
in nearly every one Of them though the cases have
not been many in each, deaths have occurred;
i does not to be Msae SPREAD
more fatal. When the epizootic was at its highest
OF the city received daily the carcasses OF about
sixty horses, while now, with only comparatively
few suffering from the dropsy, thirty carcasses are
It is feared by many Of the best surgeons that we
may have still iurther forms OF the eplzootc before
1t finally disappears Whether right or wrong there
are many people who
Se @ Of e and
with the fact that most Of the doctors credit the
new complication" to debility is not calculated
to relieve the public mind as to travel during the
Winter months.
AS to the epizootic proper it may be said that it
eral thing the horses are feeding, and though of
course the majority OF them still suffer more or
less from debility, caused by
THE WANT OF FEED
during the Sickness yet travel on most OF the city
The companies are 'sparing" the horses as much
as they can, consistently with meeting the de-
mands for public conveyance, and though the cars
and stages are not running all on time, yet the
arrangements made render 1t dificult to notice
the absence OF the full numbers.
As to the treatment for the dr0psy, every stable
has way OF its own to effect the cure. In the
Third Avenue Railroad stables, where there are
some six or eight horses sick from dropsy doses Of
acOnite, phosphorus or sulphur are given with. 1t
Is said great relief to the animal In the Madison
Avenue Stage stables there are eight bad cases,
which are under q tonic treatment They have four
bad cases in the Fourth Avenue Railroad stables,
dr0psy In the Dry Dock stables there fs only one
horse sick, and the treatment is mineral and veg
etable tonic. During the seven or eight days that
the drOpsy has been prevalent some lOur or nve
horses died in the Third Avenue stables four In the
Fourth Avenue stables, four In the Madison Avenue
Stage stage stables, and 1t may be seen from this
percentage within q week, out OF the very few
gerous Is that form Of the epizOOtyl
There can be ne doubt that the horses did not
get fair play all along, 1t s now said In no stable
OF the public travel lines were they allowed time to
get over the disease before being put to work. and
the result Is that
are beginning to tell Those horses that have died
from drOpsy were in every instance far gone al
ready from fatigue and want OF food. All the
theories in the world cannot rebut the argument
that is adduced from the successful cures in pri
vate stables, or even in livery stables.
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