24-5 D'lfeafes occajioned hji Infers 



difeafed cattle, or had proceeded incautioufly in interring 

 them ; but all thofe who had touched the cattle were not 

 infeiled ; for a great many horfe^ in all the villages, and even 

 in I*etcrlburgh and on the road to Peterhof, died with the like 

 fymptoms. Yet in fome of thefe places none of the people 

 were attacked by the difeafe. In ITchudow, however, twenty- 

 five perfons were infefted, of whom ten recovered. The dif- 

 eafed never communicated the infeftion to any of thofe who 

 attended them, or lived with them ; fo that the difeafe could 

 be no plague; nor were any buboes obferved under the 

 arm pits, or in any of the other glandular parts. Of our 

 people, who attended the fick and bound up their fores, not 

 one v/as infected. The difeafe at length began to difappear 

 among the people ; and about the 20th of July, when a, con- 

 fiderable quantity of rain fell, and the air became cooler, 

 very few of the cattle were any longer fick : for this reafoi^, 

 the fcnate again opened the roads on the lit of Auguft, and 

 caufed the guards to be removed. Tfchudow, where the 

 difeafe had ceafed among the people about the 18th of July, 

 continued ftill fhut four weeks longer; but on the i6th of 

 Auguft we obtained leave to return. 



" In the year 1761, the heat during fummer was exceed- 

 ingly intenfe, and in the diftritls of Narva, Novogorod, and 

 Kexholm, had occafioned a mortality among the cattle likp 

 that which ufually takes place during hot fummcrs in the 

 jiiarfhy parts of ['inland. Some of the people alfo were in- 

 fefted with exanthemata, or were attacked with carbuncles, 

 or rather gangrenous tumours, and fome of them died fud- 

 denly. As I at that time prefidcd over the medical depart- 

 ment, I difpatched, by command of the fenate, doftors Ens 

 and Da'nl, logetlier with fome furgeons, to the place where 

 tho diuen(rer was faid to prevail j but about the beginning 

 of Sept.' mber it entirely ceafed. 



" In the month of July 1764, information was brought 

 to the fenate from the dlllrict of Jamburg, that feveral cattlp 

 had died on the Schepelow eftate ; and that one man ha^ 

 been .stacked by the difeafe, and died fuddenly. When this 

 intelligence was communicated to the emprefs, (lie imme- 

 diately gave crdcrs to baron Tfcherkafl'uF, prelidcnt of the 

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