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(ibllejre of medicine, to fend me thither, as had been the 

 tafe before on fimilar occafions. On the 29th of July the 

 prefident made me acquainted with this order, and fent for 

 Chemnitz the furgeon. We fet out the fame day, with one 

 of the medical pupils and a few foldiers, and in the evening 

 of the following day arrived at Ugoric, the place of our de- 

 ftination. I fent notice of our arrival to Kudrawzof, the 

 commiffkry at Jamburg, who had firft communicated intel- 

 ligence of the difeafe having broken out, and who joined us 

 the day following. In confequence of falfe information given 

 to him by a peafant, Kudrawzof had firft ftated, that after 

 twenty-four head of cattle had died, a farmer named Iwan 

 Petrof had loft his horfe, which had dropped down and ex- 

 pired as he was riding home from the fields; that the farmer 

 had been infefted with the difeafe, which (liowed itfelf in 

 livid tumours on his face and breaft, and that he had died 

 the third day after. We learned, however, that the cafe was 

 fomewhat different. Petrof had indeed loft a horfe, which 

 he had fent with his fon in the beginning of June to Narva, 

 where the animal died : Petrof himfelf had walked out into 

 the fields 5 but when he returned his eyes were fwelled, and 

 his whole face, breaft, and (lioulders, being foon after af- 

 fe£led in the like manner, he died on the fifth day. From 

 thefe fymptoms it would appear that his dlforder was a ma- 

 lignant eryfipelatous fwelling in the head, which became ftill 

 worfe becaufe no remedy was applied. All thefe circum- 

 ftances were told us by his wife and fon, and confirmed by 

 the prieft of the place. The difeafe, therefore, of which he 

 died, could not be confidered as infeftious : three childrca 

 ■whom he left, together \\n\h their mother, were in perfect 

 health ; but we caufed them to obferve the neceflary pre- 

 cautions for eight days. 



" In regard to the diftemper among the cattle, it began 

 on the 15lh of June in three places. Twenty-two horfes 

 and two cows had died at Ugorie, three horfes at Letofchez, 

 and five fwine at Latzi, The fame fymptoms were obferved 

 on all thefe animals, viz. tumours on the neck, breaft, and 

 ■fliouldcrs, or under the belly. They had all died fuddenly, 

 and moft of them within twenty-four hours after the difeafe 

 I i % had 



