1 68 History of Animal Plagues. 



the feet of brutes {in hrutis verum pedum injiammationes).' ^ At 

 Pesth, in Hungary, Rayger writes, 'On the seventh of June, the 

 dew was noticed to be of a purple colour on the leaves of the 

 trees and vines; also on the linen garments of the men labouring 

 in the vineyards, where it exactly resembled the colour of spots 

 of mulberry or cherry juice.' ^ 



A.D. 1697. In Sweden, glossanthrax in cattle.* Epidemic 

 small-pox was very prevalent in the human species in Germany, at 

 Augsburg, Stuttgart, Bale, &c. Stegmann says, 'In the month of 

 February of this year, dogs were observed to die in some places 

 from an epidemic disease marked by a burning fever. When 

 their bodies were dissected, nothing was found worthy of remark 

 except thickened blood, and a quantity of black bile. ... In the 

 same month of this year fowls, pigeons, and geese perished from 

 an epidemic; under their wings were found ulcerated pustules, 

 and when their bodies were dissected, the liver was observed to 

 be dry and parched.^* November and December, '98. 'In 

 these months, small-pox attacked men of all ages, for I saw a 

 woman more than seventy years of age, and a man more than 

 sixty, both stricken with the disease. Animals, also, were not free 

 from the small-pox ; of these the winged tribe, but particularly 

 geese and poultry, nearly all perished. Sheep and pigs, however, 

 which were given purging draughts with care (such as ashes of 

 the stalks of beans or cut corn, mixed with human urine), for the 

 most part recovered.^ ^ 



At a later period, I have entered into a review of the 

 opinions of several eminent comparative pathologists on the 

 variolous disorders of animals, and their transmissibility to dif- 

 ferent species. It may be remarked here, however, that the small- 

 pox of birds is a malady which very ancient authors have noticed. 

 Palladius,^ for example (a.d. 300), in his description of the dis- 

 eases of common poultry and peacocks, mentions an exanthema- 

 tous affection by the name oigrana circa ocuLos, which has been 

 supposed to be this malady [Heusinger). ' Si amarum lupinum 



^ Sydenham. Opp. Geneva, vol. i. p. 283. 



- Ibid. Op. cit., p. 731. ^ Schnurrer. Op. cit., voL ii. p. 229. 



* Stegmann. Constat. Mansfeld. Ephem. Nat. Curios., p. 384. 



^ Ibid., p. 108. * Scrip, rer. Rustic. Edit. Schneider. Vol. iii. 



