22 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



focus of typhus, displayed the most deadly 

 form of the cattle disease, in the Venetian 

 territory, although no alteration in the air or 

 waters had been observed in Italy, and the 

 seasons had been regular and the pastures 

 abundant. The contagion spread into Pied- 

 mont, where it carried off 70,000 head of 

 cattle ; thence it extended to France and Hol- 

 land, each of which countries lost 200,000 of 

 these animals. The trade in hides introduced 

 the distemper into England, where it proved 

 no less fatal. It was the same in the other 

 countries of Europe. 



In this disease, the intestines of the affected 

 cattle were, as in the present epizootia, in- 

 flamed, and strewed over with livid spots 

 and ulcerations, and the blood, though appa- 

 rently fluid in the body of the animal, 

 coagulated directly after it had issued from the 

 vein. 



Herment thence concludes, that this epi- 

 zootia is nothing more than an inflammation 

 of the blood. Lancisi advised his contempo- 

 raries to put to death without pity every 

 animal which was affected or seemed to be 

 affected with the disease; and it was in 



