1^6 History of Animal Plagues. 



occur.' ^ Cattle Plague was very destructive in Schonen, 

 Sweden, in this and the followino; year.^ 



A.D. 1722. Plague in man at Vienna^ Hungary, and in the 

 East. Dysentery in Upper Saxony, and epidemic pestilence at 

 Granada. In the Venetian States, a singular epizooty appeared. 

 'In the year 1722, a thanksgiving was offered in the church of 

 San Belli^o — a commune now united to the district of Len- 

 dinara, in the province of Rovigo — because of an unknown 

 epizootic disease which attacked every sort of quadruped, but 

 especially cattle and sheep. It manifested itself in the animals 

 by making them jump, and by rigors all over the body.'' 



There was a great destruction amongst the fishes in the lake 

 of Constance, caused, it is conjectured, by the excessively high 

 temperature in the month of March, and subsequent extreme 

 cold in April. When the dead bodies were examined, it was 

 found that the swimming or air-bladders were extremely dis- 

 tended, and that reddish pustules were formed on all the viscera.* 



Canine rabies was frequent in Silesia and Hungary, and 

 many geese died.^ 



A.D. 1723-4. The winter of 1723 was cold, the summer 

 damp. The year 1724 was hot, and fruits and wine were 

 abundant. In Iceland, there were volcanic eruptions which lasted 

 till 1730. Earthquake at Lisbon. Palermo nearly destroyed 

 by an earthquake. Yellow fever in mankind in Spain and Lis- 

 bon. Miliary fever at Frankfort on the Maine. The pestilence 

 in Spain was attributed to the use of fruit and snow water. 

 Epidemic catarrh amongst children in the principality of the 

 Asturias. In 1724, a deadly epizooty of ovine small-pox in the 

 Venetian States, lasting from August to December.^ 



In this year, M. Astruc, when treating on the plague in man, 

 casually mentions the prevalence of sheep small-pox in France, 

 and declares that not only is the disease highly contagious when 

 propagated from sheep to sheep, but that it can be transmitted 

 to other animals. He cites as a fact, that wild rabbits, coming 

 to eat the herbage on the pastures of infected flocks during the 



1 Bresl. Samml., vol. xv. pp. 163, 262. "^ Ileitsinger. Op. cit., p. 202. 



3 Bottani. Op. cit., vol. v. p. 94. * Didier. Traite de la Peste, p. 540. 



5 Breslauer Samml., vol. xxii. p. 646. ^ Bottani. Op. cit., vol. v. p. 137. 



