142, History of Animal Plagues. 



among the oxen happened in our country, by which they fell 

 down choked in a wonderful manner. Spain was the first place 

 which felt the full force of this malady. Afterwards Malta, 

 Sicily, Sardinia, Hydruntum, Apulia, Calabria, Latium, and at 

 length the whole of the Neapolitan province was affected; to 

 which, after two and twenty years, it had become so domiciled, 

 that many thought it would be some centuries before it entirely 

 disappeared.' ^ From its becoming endemic, it was designated 

 the ' houm annua lites.' 



The garrotillo, or quinsy, was about this period committing 

 great havoc in man, especially in Naples, where it was also 

 named the male in canna. It may be mentioned here, that in 

 the winter of this year a terrific snow-storm happened in Eng- 

 land, which continued for thirteen days and nights, causing the 

 loss of 20,000 sheep in one district alone, — that of Eskdale 

 Moor. 



A.D. 1625. Inundations, destroying cattle and horses at 

 Seville and Salamanca. On the authority of the archives of 

 the Agricultural Society of Southern Russia, the Cattle Plague 

 broke out in Hungary, passing thence into Italy, where it 

 appears to have raged for some time, as it is mentioned for sub- 

 sequent years. 



A.D. 1628. In the states of Venice, Rot {pourriture, hiatta, 

 ynarciume) amongst sheep.^ 



A.D. 1630. Famine in Italy the two preceding years. In 

 this year great inundations, and disease of plants, and famine in 

 Germany, lasting during 1631. An epidemy in man, and a bovine 

 pest in the whole of Upper Italy.^ Wirth, erroneously, I think, 

 mentions anthrax as prevalent in Italy. It was far more likely 

 to be the Cattle Plague, which had prevailed since 1625; ^'^ 

 which year he also mentions it as present in that country. At 

 Padua an epizooty among cats.* 



A.D. 1635. Plague in mankind at Nimeguen, during which, 

 Diemerbroek says, 'about twenty hens, which were raking 



1 Severimis. De Recondita Abscess. Nat. pp. 431 — 446. 



2 Bottatii. Vol. ii. p. 37. 



^ Ibid. p. 43. Rainazziiii. De Contagiosa Epidemia. 

 * Miirato7-i. Govern, della Peste, p. 8. 



