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down to us ; but that of Vicq d'Azyr being 

 the better of the two, we shall extract there- 

 from what may chiefly interest us. 



Vicq d'Azyr relates the history of the 

 epizootics, and expatiates on the original cause 

 of the typhus in horned cattle, and on its 

 nature. The passages in which he treats of 

 its mode of propagation and its treatment, are 

 the most deserving of our notice. 



He says, that he tried to no purpose to 

 communicate the disease a second time to 

 animals which had been fortunate enough to 

 get cured. 



That cows covered with the fresh skins 

 stripped from dead cattle, victims to the 

 distemper, did not contract it. 



That infected clothes which had been worn 

 by men who had served in hospitals where 

 cattle were under treatment, having been laid 

 on the backs of several beasts in sound health, 

 were found to transmit the distemper in three 

 cases out of six. 



That the gases expelled from the intestines, 

 received into a bladder ball, and let out under 

 the noses of healthy cattle, have communicated 

 the disease to them, after ten or fifteen days 



