The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-11-21
RPIZO0TIC.
What Professor Law Says on The
Subject.

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What Professor Law Says on The
Subject.
Professor James Law, of Carnell
University, iectured before the In
ternational Academy Of Science, a.
Room No. Is, Cooper Union, New
York, on the Horse Disease. >
Much Of Professor Laws lecture
was technical, and not of the highest
popular interest. The following
we're its more general features:
The disease is by no means a new
one. Between 412 and 415 B. C. a
similar disease ragged in Greece.
Italy, and Sicily. It has also oc-
CURED in A. D. $50, 876, 1923, 1859,
1893 (then especially severe), six
times in the fourteenth century,
thirty nine times in the fifteenth,
twice in the sixteenth, five times III
the seventeenth, fifteen times in the
eighteenth, and seventeen times in
the nineteenth thus far-protably
not more frequently in later times,
but appearantly SO from the lack of
full records earlier Sometimes it
has especially attacked horses, dogs,
cats and oxen, and sometimes man.
+ is especially an influenza. After
infection, from one to three days in
tervene before its appearance. It's
symptoms are sudden. They differ
according to the part attacked and
the severity of the attacks. Some
times the disease confines itself to
the throat, sometimes to the lungs,
sometimes to the digestive organs,
AMI sometimes to the tendens and
muscles, when it is rheumatic in
form. A common symptom Of all
these forms is great weakness and
prostration, indisposition to MOI
halfclosed eyes, relaxed limbs, stag
gering, etc.
The present manifestations is
largely that OF the throat, and is at
tended by coughing. The lecturer
thought that it could not be the re-
suit of conditions of the atmosphere, |
for these could not continue I'M
changed for the length of time that
the disease runs; nor to gases or in
gradients of the air, for these must |
become diluted and pass away; nor
could temperature be its cause, for !
it had occurred under a great yarie-
ty of thermal conditions. These and /
other agencies might, however, in
Auence its course after its inception.
1t was true, that for the past few
months butchers had had unusual |
trouble in preserving meat, and /
there must have been a great growth /
of fungi from ill-preserved meat
but whether this was a coincidence I
it was impossible to determine. The
lecturer, however, inclined to the +
belief that the disease was the result
Of poisonous organic matter in the
atmosphere-nOt probably vital, but /
rather morbid matter.
As to its prevention, one method
complete-the shutting up of the
animal in a stable, and the use of
but this involved .
trouble and expense, and as the /
disease is now light in form he
thought the animals should be ex-
posed. The stables should be closed |
and general preventives employed,
such as the burning of little sui
phur on a shovel in the stable two !
or three times a day. Again, rest
and proper remedies when the ami
mails are attacked are essential
The lecturer described at some !
length the different phases of the
disease and the methods of treat |
ment. The horse is finely organi- !
zed animal; the surface exposed to !
the air in his lungs is about 1000 |
square feet; and, since he is so often |
oyerworked and badly housed, it is
not strange that such diseases affect !
him with peculiar severity.