History of Animal Plagues. 133 



found its way through the governments of Moscow, Riazan, 

 Worotin, Ukraine, PodoHa, and \"()lhynia; and from these coun- 

 tries travelled into the provinces of Polesia, Lithuania, Sendomir, 

 LubHn, Cracow, Siradin, Kahsch, Posen, Masovie, and entered 

 Prussia, where, in the month of October, it had got as far as the 

 neighbourhood of Konigsberg; on the other side, it penetrated 

 from Poland into Silesia, from whence it became diffused in the 

 vicinity of Bojanowa, Medzibor, Ohlau, Brieg, and Breslau. 

 It only spread hij contagion, and Kanold says that whatever 

 course it pursued, ' notwithstanding the lateness of the season, 

 they who had two or three herds of stock upon their lands could 

 scarce keep a single animal, and large numbers of cattle were 

 found lying dead upon the roads.' ^ 



From Hungary it was carried into Carinthia, Styria, Austria, 

 and as far as Augsburg in Bavaria. Gerbezius, writing on the 

 28th of December from Lavbach to Augsburg, says : ' Animals 

 also continued to die. It is certain that so many showers, ac- 

 companied with rust (blight), had made the pastures very un- 

 healthv ; and vet it is more probable that the continuation of 

 the mortality is rather to be attributed to the spreading of 

 the contagion which was brought among them, than to the 

 luihealthv pastures.'^ And wilting on the 12th of January, 

 1712, to Fabffius at Vienna, he adds, ^ You make mention 

 of that disease bv which nearly all the oxen, cows, and calves 

 have been killed about you ; know, then, that there has been 

 a like mortality among the same animals with us, except that 

 hitherto it has not extended so far, but has remained on each 

 side of the Royal road {regia via), along which Hungarian 

 cattle are driven from Styria into Italy ; on that tract nearly 

 all have perished ; and as with you, no trustworthy remedy can 

 be found which will prove satisfactory. Every one agrees that the 

 cause of this disease arises from infected cattle being driven from 

 Hunjrarv into Italy; but whence it was orio-inallv derived there arc 

 many differences of opinion. But if we take into consideration the 

 warm and rainy character of the end of last summer, and tlie whole 

 of the autumn, we may easily perceive that the infection was 



' Kanold. Jahrcsliisloric, p. 33. 

 - Ephcm. Nat. Curios. Appendix, p. 36. 



