l44 "D'tfeafcs occajztnied by InJeEls in SiVtclen, ^c. 



the expiration of the fecond clay, clfe it will be incfiscliial* 

 The Torgatefe arc accuftomed to ftinnilate and fcarify thele 

 tumours with the petrified tooth of a fliark, which they call 

 a fnake's horn. I have been informed in a letten from a 

 peri'on who was an eye witnefs, that tumours of this kind in 

 a. horfe, diflei:led after death, were found to confift of foft 

 watery matter. Horfes often die on the day when the tu- 

 mours appear *. Among the Calmucs it is cuftomary to 

 burn all the cattle which die of the fo called mohmo, but the 

 poor are fcldom fo nice, they only cut out the flefli around 

 the tumours, and eat the remainder without any ccremonyi 

 It is faid that the blood of thofe who feed on fuch carrion 

 becomes corrupted, and that they are fubjeft to running 

 fores, called chatUg'dy which arc often infectious. But that 

 this obfervation is applicable rather to other difcafes among 

 cattle, than to the tumours in queftion, I conclude from this 

 circumftance, that the Tartars fay, that the mohmo of horfes> 

 which, as is well known, are moll fubje£l to external tu- 

 mours, are not always infe6lious; thofe, however, of cows 

 and goats are more dangerous, fo that not only the flefli of 

 thefe animals, when eaten inadvertently, is infeAious, but 

 even their fkins if a perfon lies or fits upon them. According 

 to fome late obfervations which have been communicated to 

 me, purgatives adminiftered to ihofe attacked with thefe tu- 

 mours arc pernicious: on the other hand, fl.rengthening fpi- 

 rituous remedies are found to be ferviceable if ufed before the 

 appearance of lethargic aflcftions, which in thofe countries 

 feldom fail to accompany this difcafe, and which fometimes 

 continue two or three days. The Calmucs, as I am in- 

 formed, are inclined to afcribe tlie mohmo tumours to the; 

 poifonous pun6lurc or filth of an infe£t, and therefore to an 

 external caufe. 



[To be concluded in the next Number.] 



* Pallas Samm'u'jgeti hljiorifcher vacbrkbteu iU'er die Mofigol'tjckcn I'v^' 

 kerfihajia!y Part I. p. i6i. 



X. Vefcril- 



