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England that this spirited resolve was first 

 acted upon. 



The three counties of Middlesex, Essex, and 

 Surrey arrested the course of this contagion 

 in less than three months, by adopting this 

 measure; whilst in the rest of the stricken 

 counties of Great Britain, and likewise in 

 Holland, where this decisive course was not 

 taken at all, the disease prevailed among the 

 cattle for several years. Since that time, it 

 has been insisted on by some authors, that the 

 barbarous process of 'general extermination 

 offers the most effectual remedy which, in our 

 present state of ignorance and improvidence, 

 we could have recourse to, in order to check 

 the diffusion and the duration of this fell 

 disease. 



The learned Goelicke describes an epizootia 

 which was witnessed in 1730, at Frankfort-on- 

 the-Oder. His narrative, written with a 

 masterly hand, might very properly be applied 

 to the disease which we are now considering ; 

 and the treatment recommended by this ear- 

 nest and vigilant observer is so wisely deduced 

 from the symptoms, that even in the present 

 day we might take that treatment as a model. 



