History of Animal Plagues. 143 



into some of the nastiness thrown out of an infected house in 

 the time of the plague at Nimeguen, contracted the distemper 

 and died. Some of them had the pathognomonic signs of 

 the plague.' He also mentions that before the plague broke 

 out, birds which were kept in cages died in many houses where 

 the disease afterwards appeared.^ 



A.D. 1638. Cattle epizooty in Friuli.^ 



A.D. 1640. ' The unforeseen uprising of the Portuguese in 

 1640, amongst other evils, was the cause of a cruel epizooty of 

 contagious scrofulous tumours [lamparones coiitagiosas) among the 

 horses, the result of a skirmish between the Spanish and Portu- 

 guese cavalry, and taking the captured horses toBadajoz; so 

 that, according to Martin Arredondo, there died more than 500 

 horses, which no remedies could save.' ^ This was in all pro- 

 bability an epizootv of glanders and farcy. An epizooty ap- 

 peared among the cattle of the Jura Alps, which caused great 

 devastation among the herds and alarm to the people. During 

 the panic, a poor woman, Catherine Miget, was put to the 

 torture and publicly burnt, as it was believed she had bewitched 

 the fountains of Sancy (Franche Comte) and the herds of the 

 district. 



A.D. 1643. A bovine pest in Saxony. Week says: 'A 

 cattle contagion, the so-called flying pestilence [Jlissende pest) 

 appeared, of which many thousand head of cattle died, and for 

 which but one single remedy was found efficacious, namely : if 

 the infected animals were placed among horses, these took the, 

 infection, and the cattle recovered.' ^ 



A.D. 1648. An epizooty among the horses of the French 

 army in Germany. Solleysel, a celebrated French veterinarian 

 and author, has given us a description of it. It began by fever, 

 great prostration, and tears running from the eyes, and there 

 was an abundant mucous discharge of a greenish colour from 

 the nostrils. The horses also experienced loss of appetite, and 

 their ears were cold. Few of those attacked recovered. The 

 treatment adopted was with a view to neutralize the malignity 



^ Diemerbrock. De Peste. ^ BoHani. Vol. ii. p. 45. 



' Villalba. Epid. Espanol. vnl. ii. p. 69. 

 ^ Meyer. Topography of Dresden, p. 276. 



