History of Animal Plagues. 129 



plus particulierement a cette fievre de Sydenham ; ^ ou niiliaire 

 malignej decrite par Hamilton,- AUioni/ et surtout par Wal- 

 thierus/ qui a observe que toutes les fois que I'eruption se 

 faissoit du cote du visage, ou qu'elle occupoit les orcilles, le eou, 

 les bras, Petoit la meilleure crise qu'on put espercr, ct celle qui 

 sauve ordinairement les malades. Hippocrate porte le nieme 

 prognostic dans les squinancies, lorsque I'humeur morhifique se 

 manifeste au-dehors.'^ It niav be observed that this author de- 

 signated the Cattle Plague or Rinderpest a Pklogoso-gnngreneuse. 

 Dupuy ^ (who termed the Cattle Plague a Cachexie or D'lath^se 

 f^arioleuse) and others think it was variolous in its nature. Lorin- 

 ser' imagined it must be the contagious typhus, or Cattle Plague; 

 and others, again, that it was glossanthrax. A few are of opinion 

 that Heusinger ^ was right in declaring it to be a malignant 

 form of Stomatitis aphthosa ; but one cannot help concluding, 

 from the symptoms enumerated, the contagious character of the 

 malady, its great mortality, and its likeness to the plague which 

 threatened to decimate our herds in 1865, that those who assert 

 its identity with the Rinderpest are justified in doing so. Though 

 F'racastor, in one part of his treatise, asserts that oxen alone were 

 affected, vet in another he says that not only did the plague 

 sweep away ' the wretched cattle, but also nearly the whole of 

 the unhappy flocks of sheep.^ This gives additional evidence as 

 to the disease being the veritable Plague ; though, as will be 

 subsequently noticed, diseases of a pestilential kind were preva- 

 lent among sheep from the beginning of the century. Besides, 

 the archives of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Southern 

 Russia mention that the 'Cattle Plague' appeared in Spain at 

 this period; so that Europe may have again been widely de- 

 vastated by this scourae. 



And Schenkius" informs us that at this time Venice and Padua 



1 Sydenha7ti. De Nova Febris Nigressu Schedula Monitoria. 



^ Hamilton. De Febre Miliar!. 



' Allionni. Febris Miliari Tractatio, No. 76. 



* Medic. Germani, p. 151. * Paiild. Recherclies, &c., vol. i. p. 37- 



* Dupuy. Traite sur les Maladies Epizootiques. Pari:*, 1836. 

 '' Lorinscr. Die Rinderpest. 



® I/cusitigcr. Recherches de I'athohjgic Comparee, vol. ii. p. l^S- 

 ^ Schenkius. History of Hanover, chap. xi. 



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