The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-12-13
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THE INFLUENZA ~ hVn"ssN'
We gathorth following from On article
written by Professor Jane Law Of Cornell
University, Ithica, New York. Profess
or Law has furnished the public through
the colums Of the Now York Semi Week
10 Times an elaborate account Of the his
tory of the disease, It's cause end cure.
The public should feel under deep and
lasting obligations to the learned profess
or for The philanthropy displayed. lie
asserts that the disease Is not a new ono
sy any means, there being on record iifty
outbreaks. Iaurentius Rusius reports
of the epizooiic Of 1899, \. d., as It APP
peared in Seville, "Thc horse carried
| il head dropping, would cat nothing
tears ran from the eyes, aud there was
hurried breathing from the flanks. The
malady was epidemic, and in that ;e"r
900 horses died" Solysei descr'pes
49,, 81 1els rs he observed it in the
tFonch army operating in Germany
| al. LeOsn hy s,~s, great prostratiou,
tears running from the eyes, and a pro
| fuse grcenish discharge from the nosirils.
There was loss Of appetite and cold .ears.
Few of those attacked recovered.
In 1918 influenza was ,pidcnic over the
whole of Europe, spreading from East to
West Short and Ratty assure us that
in the British Isles it was proceeded by
"a ansal catarrh, from which horses uni.
versaly suffered. In 1898 Europe was
again visited by the disease. "In 1899
America suffered in common with Eu.
rope. the horses proving the first victims
on both Continents" Again m 1892 It
prevailed on both homispheres, attaching
Unfortunately, horses and mol. In
1867 itonce more prevailefon both sides
of the Atlantic Fostd' md Meusen Tor
Europe and Webstey and uiloa for
America, record the isplicatlon OF horses
and dogs. In 175oyhf,er severe WIN
ter and warm sdyfaer, with an earth
quake in Walls, Influenza spread over
! Europe. attsty9 horses and dogs first,
and humasrL fngs later. Poultry died
in great vlnlbers Of an epizootic deduc-
tion frosthe eyes. The similarity Of the
china n condition proceeding that out
bresyand the present one, is not a little
regarkable.
u. CAUSES.
The air seems to be the main medium
Of propagation, rather than food or drink;
and the special agent of propagation
seems to be one capable Of indefinite in
7w->-eoltinual reproduction to a great.
or or less eSyadt-ia different places,
Parks) It IL ditfcultto- reconcile the
idea of nm uniformly ditihsed unShele.
some condition os the atmosphere, and
its progress from It's point Of origin by
atmospheric means alone. "lf it can be
shown that the disease is communicated |
from one animal TO another, and that IT
will spread rapidly in new locality, |
from newly imported animal, we can
only conclude that the malady Is caused
by a specific poison, Of which the diseased
system is at once the storehouse and the
field Coz it, fertile rosrodCct;on.' Many /
high authorities. hovtver, do not believe
in is transmissibility from the fact of its
breaking out whbre contact was
impossible; Jake Higgins mule as an
example. Some Of the best authoriti::.'
report Instances Of the spread Of ne as
pc IN new locality, fYw s<fsons VINO
have just arrived from tbe fh'ec'si pace
stances Of 10 spread in new region or
stable irpaeaiately after the introduction
of n hor'e from an infected district. The
present ep;zootic furnishes cases in point.
The maisdy appeared n Syracuse in
newly arrived CanadiaDhorses andsprea
rapidly over the city