in Sweden, RuJJla, and Siberia. 245 



find the woman at home- Being brought tojne next morn- 

 ing, I found that (he had a&ually a black tumour not un- 

 like a carbuncle. We gave her the neceflary medicines ; 

 and, .as (lie found herfelf confiderably better^ we made pre- 

 parations next morning to return. 



*' When we got back to Goreloi Kabak, we were informed 

 by the poftman, who three days before had driven us through 

 Schunderow, that the fame day he had been attacked with a 

 tumour above the right eye. In the middle of it there was 

 now a black ulcer not unlike a carbuncle, but unattended 

 with heat. I adminiftered to him the proper medicines ; 

 but I received no further account of him, though I gave 

 direftions to the bailiff for that purpofe."— Thus far Dr. 

 Lerche. 



1 fhall leave it to intelligent phyficians to determine whe- 

 ther this difeafe, fo dangerous in particular to horfes, which 

 prevails only during dry and hot fummers in Ingermannland 

 and Finland, be not of the fame kind with that obferved in 

 Siberia ; and whether it be not free from all dangerous cnn- 

 fequences in regard to infeiSlion, and may be cured by the 

 common topical means. The ufe of bark, which Dr. Lerche 

 found beneficial, ought undoubtedly to be employed for 

 curing this difeafe, and preventing the gangrene, which fo 

 fuddenly takes place, from fpreading. It is to be afcribed, 

 in all probability, to a like power of checking gangrene, that 

 the Calmucs have found it of benefit to give to horfes, when 

 attacked by thefe tumours, as much as they can eat of that 

 ftatice which I have called trigona*. They, however, afl'ert 

 too much when they fay, that a horfe which has been once 

 cured by this allringent plant will never be again attacked 

 by the difeafe. 



■ Pallas Rt^ife, Part Til. p. 519, note. Gmelin's des "Jiingern Reifif 

 Part li. plate 34. 



IX. Ob. 



