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tality ensued. Many of the men to whom remedies were not 

 immediately appHed on the first day, died from the poison. It 

 I was worthy of remark, that at certain hours the water was foetid 

 I and red, and after some days regained its limpid character. 

 When chemically examined, a kind of red earth was found in 

 the water, mixed with nitrous particles, but the stench was 

 attributed to a bituminous viscid matter.' ^ 



Anthrax also appeared in Hungary, and an epizooty of 

 rabies amongst the deer tribe. ' August being excessively wet, 

 the mortality among cattle increased, and they were seized with 

 a white pustular eruption {pustulis albicantihus), attended with 

 difficulty of breathing. When the pustules were opened, a 

 purulent matter with a noxious exhalation was discharged, 

 as well as an intolerable stench from the mouth. The animals 

 groaned loudly from the intense pain. Wild beasts of all kinds 

 perished in large numbers at Somogy; and in the woods the 

 country people found dogs which had been driven there by 

 madness after feeding on these beasts ; and men bitten by them 

 were quickly seized with frenzy and hydrophobia, imitating the 

 barking and the madness of dogs, and attacking those near 

 by biting at them. Some even contracted the madness while 

 trying the remedy of washing the mouths of the beasts with 

 vinegar and salt.' ^ 



In Lower Hungary, there was an extraordinary mortality 

 amongst the wild hogs. They died in such great numbers, and 

 their ])utrefving bodies were such a nuisance, that an order was 

 issued for their interment.^ 



An epizooty of anthrax in France;* also in the neighbour- 

 hood of Augsburg, which was imagined to be derived from Hun- 

 gary. Schroeckius writes: ' The grievous plague must not be over- 

 looked, which seized and killed many horses, mostly without the 

 city, and afterwards did not spare the oxen, pigs, geese, fowls, or 

 even the wild beasts, while it lasted up to July. Hard tumours ap- 

 peared on the breast and groin, and other places, and they so 

 quickly spread themselves in all directions, that in a short space 

 of time death ensued. It seems to me that this arose from the 



' GenselUi. Constit. Epid. Infer. Hungariae. Eph. Nat. Curios., App. p. 4. 

 2 Ibid. p. 4. 3 Ka7told. Op. cit., p. 104. * Paulet. Op. cit., vol. i. p. 93. 



