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is that the anunals which have been attacked must, with all dili- 

 gence and care, be separated from the herd, put apart by them- 

 selves, and sent to those places where no animal is pastured, lest 

 by their contagion they endanger all the rest, and the negligence 

 of the owner be imputed (as is usually done by fools) to the 

 Divine displeasure/ ^ 



Apsyrtus, a renowned Greek Veterinarian of this period, 

 also speaks in his writings of this malls (juaXts), though it is 

 quite as evident that he mixes up indiscriminately the character- 

 istics of several dangerous maladies under the indefinite term, 



' Vegetms Renatus. Ars Veter. London, 1748, p- 221. 



