THE CONTAGIOUS TVPHUS 

 III. 



Very little is known of the origin or first 

 outbreak of the epizootia which produced such 

 fearful ravages in the middle of the eighteenth 

 century. Some suppose that it first ap- 

 peared in Tartary, where it occasioned a 

 disorder twice as extensive in its pernicious 

 effects as any similar distemper which had 

 been known up to that time. Thence it passed 

 into Russia, from which it spread on one side 

 into Poland, Livonia, Prussia, Pomerania, 

 and Holland, and from that country into 

 England ; on the other side towards the East, 

 it invaded the Turkish Empire, Bohemia, 

 Hungary, Dalmatia, Austria, Moravia, Styria, 

 the Gulf of Venice, Italy, Spain, Portugal, 

 France, the banks of the Rhine, and Denmark. 



But another opinion has assigned Bohemia 

 as the source from which this destructive 

 epizootia took its rise, and its supporters 

 allege that during the siege of Prague the 

 cattle feeding in its plains had been deprived 

 of their usual fodder by the continual razzias 

 of the French to supply their own cavalry. 



Be this as it may, this virulent cattle 



