HORNED CATTLE. 627 



OR Plague. See Horfes. Dr. Layard, our 

 befl, or rather only author on this fubjecl, pub- 

 iiflied his book from Rivingtons 1757. The 

 d-o61or defines the diftemper as a peftilential 

 fever fid generis, peculiar to animals with 

 horns, but uninfeftious to all others. Leonard 

 Mafgal, however, relates an anecdote in his 

 days, of an infefted hide, carried on horfeback 

 to a tanner, which killed both man and horfe, 

 tanner and all : althous^h fuch writers are little 

 to be depended upon, one would fuppofe this 

 to be too plain a cafe to be miflaken. 



The following is extrafted from Zoonomia, 

 Vol. II. p. 249. The Pejlis Vaccina, or difor- 

 der among the cows, feems to have been a 

 contagious fever with great arterial debility, as 

 in fome of" them, in the latter fta^-e of the 

 difeafe, an emphyfima could often be felt in 

 fome parts, which evinced a confiderable pro- 

 grefs of gangrene beneath the fls.in. In the 

 fenfitive, inirritated fevers of thefe animals, I 

 fuppofe about fixty grains of opium, with two 

 ounces of extraft of oak-bark, every fix hours, 

 would fupply them with an efficacious medi- 

 cine, to which might be added thirty grains 

 vitriol of iron, if any tendency to bloody uiine. 

 To prevent the infection from fp reading, an 

 order from government, forbidding the remo- 

 val of any cattle found within five miles of the 

 place fuppofed to be infeded for a {q\v days; 



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