270 Facts relative to the Diseases common to 



time, or in quick succession, among the human kind, 

 and among the domesticated animals of the fields, 8cc. : 

 hay, they tell us, that the horses and cattle (oxen, goats, 

 and sheep) have sometimes communicated the pesti- 

 lence to the human kind. On this subject, the valua- 

 ble work of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in particular 

 is worthy of being consulted*. 



A pestilential or malignant bilious fever has, for several 

 years, prevailed among the horses in various parts of the 

 United- States ; in Canada, &c. ; and has proved very 

 mortal to these useful animals. I propose to publish an 

 extensive memoir on the subject of this disease, which 

 appears to be very nearly allied to the most malignant 

 bilious fevers, confessedly of domestic origin, in the 

 United- States : and even nearly allied to the yellow-fe- 

 ver, which has so often visited the fairest and most po- 

 pulous cities of the Unionf. 



I am now to say something of Mr. Blumenbach's sc 

 cond general head of diseases, viz. : 



II. Haemorrhages. 



To this head the professor refers 



* Antiq. Rom. Lib. ix. 



t I do not mean by this observation to assert, or c\en to inti- 

 mate, that these diseases are not specifically the same. On UK 

 trary, I do believe that they are specifically similar 



