Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-11-09

g sEprxeUffo>AfAss2 ,scemg : to be
snoasst the cosnnan;ty IN odd but
widespread missfpsekeas;en regardias
the signiflcsnss of this word. ':epis0o-
fics., 80 fhst il il now coamonly cum
sidered sedescribe snd define cefssin
ziiseass snongst hrses. whilst iss rsal
sieni6eance Is estirly lost sight sof:
hasdly . week pssses that we srss not
-askea ID lsoEat ahos.e which ahe uwn-
or thinks nsst hkxe iheI .'epiasoaicsa~-
Il really denotes thes Eesslsnce sef
any one disease & aams6xs9s aadimals.
lcorrsspondins IA aHriidanie snonsst
peoples thss shsse 1sys be IN epizootic
plasdspaedmonA amongst cows, Of
-sheasrss sanesesss hqEAs of abortion
amongst e ives, or Of indnenza amongst
horses, just as there may bsan epidemic
of small pox. measles or scarlet fever
amongst humans. -The disease with
which our horses have So generally
been affected at two different periods
within the past four years Is. then, ia
auenza or catarrhal fever and not sep
izoot." As We are again approaching
the fall Of the year at which time this
disease has heretofore made its gener-
al and remarkable appearances, q little
about the histories of similsr outbreaks
in this and other countries and the gen.
eral causes of influenza NAV not be un-
interesting or inopportune. II has a
very early history. In 1899 it appear
ed in Seville, where sit killed more than
one thousand horses, aud seemed to be
incurable." In l64S it broke ou,
amongst the horses Of the French army
in Germany. In 1888 i, was prevalen,
over the whole Of Europe affecting
both men and horses; in 1899 Europe
and America suffered from the disease
and again in 1882; in 1767 j. once more
appeared in both hemispheres, when i,
is recorded that both horses and dog
suffered from it. "In l776, after very
severe winter and warm summer, in
huenza spread over Europe, attacking
horses and dogs first and human beings
after. Poultry died in great numbers;
it was very severe in New York and
caused great mortality amongst the hor-
ses of Maryland" During the present
century it has ragged with varying de-
grees Of virulence: in 1S49-50 and
1864 and ls7l-2 in London, and in
lSs2-3 in this country. when it broke
out IN Toronto, Canada, on Oct. |, 1872
In 9 days il had attacked nearly all the
horses in the city. On October 18th
it reached Montreal; on the 14th. Buffa.
10: 17th, Rochester; 22d, Boston, New
York, Brooklyn and Jersey City; 27th
Philadelphia; 2sth, Washington; and
again in October, 1875, there was ar
outbreak which, however, was much
less intense and widespread than the
one Of ID just referred TO. It is singu.
larly prevalent in some seasons, and al
though it will exhibit general charac
terisG9s in common, yet the epizooti,
Of one year will be marked by some
particular symptom or symptoms wliicl
will he entirely wanting in the outsreal
of the following year. Horses of large
cities and crow ded towns are more OBJ
noxious TO II than those of the country
and in the country those are mos. liabl,
to il ,ha. are the most confined. TIL,
attack is. attended with great and earl,
loss of strength and with early inAama
ton Of the membrane lining the nos,
and throat, and the digestive organs ar,
irritable.