the Human Kind and other Animals. 267 



To this head, Professor Blumenbach refers the fol- 

 lowing diseases, viz. : 



1. Small pox y 



2. Measles, 



3. Scarlatina, or Scarlet Fever ; 



4. Miliary Fever, 



5. Petechia; and 



6. Plague. 



Is it certain that the first of these diseases is peculiar 

 to the human race? Mr. Blumenbach himself says, 

 that Dr. Jansen informed him, that some Apes (Simiae) 

 at Amsterdam, being inoculated with variolous matter, 

 the local ulcer was induced, but not the variolous fever. 

 But I think it highly probable, that many animals, be- 

 sides man, are susceptible of the small-pox. Indeed, 

 Goetz, a German writer, has related the history of a 

 case of this disease occurring in a Dog. His account is 

 curious ; and, being short, I shall give the whole of it 

 a place in this Essay. 



" Canis Variolis per contagium affectus." 



" Bruta per contagium hominum infici morbis, mon- 

 strant diversa exempla. Simile quid & meo accidit 

 cani domestico, qui cum infantibus meis variolas tunc 

 habentibus ludens, lotium corum etiam nonnunquam 

 bibens, exanthematibus rubris variolosis in Abclomine et 

 circa Penem, iisquc praesertim locis, ubi pauci vel nulli 

 aderant pili, per aliquot torquebatur dies, quiritando & 

 ejulando dolorem inde ortum indicans; bene interim 



