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ness having, for a prominent symptom, a swelling of the head. 

 This occurred principally in young fowls. When so affected 

 they made a noise something like a thrush, and were so blinded 

 that they could not find their way to their food. They then 

 became emaciated and died; so that large numbers perished. 

 Geese, and especially the goslings, were most affected, and from 

 this month until September, frequently died in large numbers. 

 The principal symptoms of the disease consisted in the geese 

 becoming weary and languid, their feathers stood on end, and 

 they became poor, so that they seemed to stand on longer legs. 

 The crop swelled, though empty, — because nothing was eaten, 

 and they sank through debility. This malady did not affect 

 the ducks; at least not so much as the geese.^^ This would 

 appear to have been an anthracoid affection. 



The same epizooty broke out in Silesia, ai>d in the autumn 

 nearly all animals were affected, pigeons, even, having symptoms 

 of a variolous disease. Horses seem particularly to have suffered. 

 * The horse disease {pferd-staupe) raged in Militschischen 

 (Silesia) . At Zessel there is scarcely a horse that is not affected. 

 At Grossberschiitz several horses have already died. This malady 

 consists in a disease of the tongue, which becomes ulcerated or 

 eaten away, so that the animals cannot eat. A good remedy 

 for this disease consisted in washing the tongue assiduously with 

 sage and rue boiled in vinegar, (Evidently glossanthrax.) 



^The sheep, in many places, already in this month began to 

 cough badly. From Trebnitzschen we hear that the swine in 

 the oak forests had, in the end of October, a special malady, from 

 which they frequently died. The acorns, which were generally 

 very maggoty, and a tenth part of which were worth nothing, 

 had received the blame for the production of this mortality. 

 From Medziborschen we also hear, that, from July, a disease 

 appeared among the swine there. Its symptoms were a tumour 

 on the throat, which threatened suffocation. When the tumours 

 were cut into in time, many were saved. To this we may 

 add, that, in October, the pigeons were seriously affected with 

 symptoms of small-pox [hlattern].'^ 



^ Kanold. Breslauer Sammlung, vol. iv. p. 11 75. 

 ^ Breslauer Sammlung, vol. vi. p. 171 1. 



