Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1875 — Fatal Diseases Among Horsesand Cattle at the East. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Diseases Among Horsesand Cattle at the East.

For several days past another epidemic has prevailed among horses in this city. The new disease is pronounced by skilled veterinary surgeons to be “ ApthaZartica,” or eruptive. The disease is stated to be even more contagious than the epizootic, and unless it is arrested at once will prove fatal. In several instances in large stables where one horse is attacked the disease spreads rapidly through the stables, and very few animals coming in contact with those affected escape. The first symptoms of the disease are noticed by a peculiar expression of the countenance, saliva flowing from the mouth and moisture exuding from the eyes., In some cases it is accompanied with troubled breathing and considerable fever. Upon opening the mouth of an animal stricken with this malady will be found small vesicles on the edge and upper portions of the-tongue and gums. On the third or fourth day’s illness large patches of the covering of the tongue drop off’, and the animal refuses food. Tlie disease, as other eruptive fevers, whether in man or beast, runs a fixed course and the eruption cannotsufely be arrested unless proper remedies are immediately applied, together with good nursing, which adds materially to the speedy recovery of the animal, which riiay be effected in from six to ten days. At a recent meeting of Pennsylvania College of Veterinary Surgeons the nature and treatment of the new disease were discussed by a number of the new members, all of whom pronounced the disease to tee contagious, and advised that the sick horses should be kept apart from those which had not taken the disease. An epidemic has also broken out within the last few days on the outskirts of the city and in Camden among the hogs and cattle, which is somewhat similar to “Texas fever.” Among hogs the disease has proved fatal, as in some cases the farmers have lost, in a few hours, from 60 to 70 per cent, of their stock. In Camden and its immediate vicinity the stock has more or less been attacked, and many hundreds of hogs and cattle have died. At the present writing the disease has not been arrested, although every known remedy has been applied. For the purpose of ascertaining the nature of the new malady a committee of five veterinary experts are holding counsel, and will in a short time suggest a remedy to abate this new and fatal disease. — Philadelphia Press.

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