CONTENTS. 



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Introduction xv 



CHAPTER I. 



PERIOD FROM B.C. 1490 TO A.D. 40O. 



Early History of Animal Plagues. Egypt and its ' Murrains.' 

 First Recorded Panzooty in Ireland. Pestilence in Troy. Greek 

 Historians and Plagues. Homer and the Siege of Troy. Droughts 

 and their Effects. Rome and its Epizooties. The Plague of Athens. 

 Aristotle. The * Abortus Epidemicus.' The Siege of Syracuse. Cato 

 the Elder. Locusts. Virgil's Panzooty. First Great Famine in Ire- 

 land. Comets and Eclipses. Columella. A ' Loimic ' Plague. Ir- 

 ruption of the Huns. First Recorded Invasion of the ' Cattle Plague.' 

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CHAPTER II. 



PERIOD FROM A.D. 400 TO A.D. 1500. 



State of Veterinary Science. Hieroclcs and Pelagonius. First 

 Recorded Mortality among Fish. Pestilence in Britain and Ireland. 

 The Ligurian Plague. Variola and Cattle Disease in Italy and Gaul. 

 Cattle and Horse Epizooty in Touraine. Anthrax in France and 

 Belgium. Destruction among Birds and Fowls. Murrains in Eng- 

 land and Ireland. The 'Maclgarth.' Charlemagne's Campaigns. 

 Mortality among Horses and Cattle. Great Irruption of the Cattle 

 Plague from Asia into Europe ; Britain Invaded. War in Pannonia. 

 Plague amongst Oxen in the Rhine Provinces. Locusts in Britain and 

 Ireland. Arnulph's Campaign. Rabies in a Bear at Lyons. Death 



