: of the disease. 
It is unnecessary to enter on any detail concerning these 
different principles ; Tp renpcating that sinnk-azodets 
opinion, there was no means of ing against con- 
See arty betine teach nels, ed alee 
stances. , i ; i od 
the malignity of the di a 
the doubtful issue of former 
experim them on a more exten- 
sive scale. His first essays, which he did not consider 
particolarly successful, saved 46 out of 112 infected ani- 
mals 
: again, 46 were: ed out of 92 ; and, if cows 
were not far adlvanced ‘n gestation, three-fourths sur- 
‘ weg 
to the same proposal in England, when 
ator applied to the privy council for i 
sion to carry the variolous matter from Hampshire into 
other counties. It was then remarked, that the intro- 
of inoculation. This ed ex- 
tremely destructive in Holland ; for it a , that 
‘of 286,647 animals attacked, not fewer | 208,354 
died 
_ The same disease seems to have made its way into 
, by the introduction of a diseased cow, as was 
prs en: the Low Countries, in the year 177t; 
after being subdued, broke out with bled vio- 
lence In 1773. _Its first and principal ravages were in 
the province of Hainault and ly, whence it became 
widely extended. Numerous remedies were tried, but 
was 
EPIZOOTY. : 
and this result is said to have coincided with the ex-  Epizooty- 
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eriments of the Marquis de Courtivron some time bes ™ 
. The British government had adopted the precau-~ 
tion, of ordering all infected cattle to be killed by stran- 
gulation, and without effusion of blood ; that their car- 
cases should be buried in the earth, with the hide 
entire ; and that all fodder, litter, and every thing else 
which might communicate the contagion, should: be 
buried along with them. Similar ordinances were pro- 
mulgated by the government of France, and renewed 
for several years, strictly enjoining the destruction of the 
diseased animals, and that their carcasesshould be buried, 
and their skins cut in pieces, in order to prevent.any 
dealings for them. Indemnification was promised te 
those who thus lost their property, and a premium of- 
fered to whoever should substitute horses or mules for 
cattle in agricultural ions. By these and other 
rudent regulations, this, which is one of the epizooties. 
[eieshersiadand iathictaty; was repressed... » 
- During the period that contagious distempers swept 
away the cattle of Europe, a malady even more } 
in its appeared among those of the West In- 
dies. [ts effects seem to have been more minutely traced: | 
in Guadaloupe, where it first attacked black. cattle, 
then spread to horses, and is said even to have affected 
man. Animals apparently well, in condition, and 
feeding as usual, were suddenly seized with shivering 
fits; attended by convulsions in the spine and abdomen, 
which sometimes carried them off in an hour. _ Almost 
all the negroes who opened the dead cattle, had boils 
rising on their arms, attended by much fever; and those 
feeding on their flesh, experienced the like symptoms. 
But examples were given of several, who actually died 
from infection of the distemper. Something similar 
was witnessed in France, where persons skinning the 
animals, themselves died of the contagion, the effects of 
which. were immediate. ‘ 
Between the years 1780: and 1790, a pestilential diss. 
ease prevailed among the cattle in the northern coun- 
ties of Scotland, vulgarly denominated hasty, from the- 
rapidity of its The animal swelled, its respi-. 
ration was , there was a copious flow from the- 
hea it lay down, and sometimes expired in a few hours, 
pater ter was weeny pease ene 
many foreign countries, to an MU. 
rage of copses, and with the decay ciahernondaheaphe 
zooty has declined. ote? pena attempted to cure- 
the infected animals, pan contagion of the. 
healthy, by fumigation with the smoke of need yire, - 
which was fire obteinedt by the friction of a certain, 
wooden apparatus erected on an islet. 
The eastern parts of Asia were visited by a destruc. 
tive nay the horses, especially-in 1804 ; and- 
after the severity in 1805 and 1806, it was re- 
newed with uncommon virulence in the year 1807, In 
so far as we can learn, this distemper consisted of a-sud- 
den swelling, attended by shivering fits, an abscess 
formed. most: in.the head, and the animal died 
in twelve hours at farthest. -But, in many instances, 
its commencement and termination were infinitely more 
rapid, and death was known to ensue in half an hour; 
The was observed aed at Ochotsk, Cattle, 
reindeer, and horses, all suffered ; and of the last, a ca- 
rayan consisting of eighty, preserved, only: ten. The 
Russian government of those distant ions, in order 
to repress the disease, ordered all the-animals perishing 
of it to be burnt ; but before its nature was well un-- 
derstood, the Jakutchians, to whom horse flesh is grate. 
fal, unwilling to lose such a; source of subsistence,, feds 
