2,42 History of Animal Plagues. 



pursuing its truly desolating; course over Istria, Friuli, and the 

 Venetian States.^ This is undoubtedly the disease mentioned by 

 Leow for the last vear. 



The most notable authorities who have treated of this inva- 

 sion are the two physicians, Andrea Goelicke ^ and Jean Bruck- 

 ner/ who studied it at Frankfort. In the preface to the work 

 of the first of these celebrities, its previous inroad is alluded 

 to ; after which he gives the following account of the plague : 

 On the 38th September, 1730, two diseased animals were opened, 

 one just slain, and the other recently dead ; and on the 7th 

 December, he opened two other large-sized beasts, one that had 

 been ill for some days from the malady, and was killed, and 

 another that had died. From the examination of these cases, it 

 was ascertained that the disease was localized in the intestines, 

 which were found black and sphacelous. Other people had as- 

 sured the writer, that instead of bile in the intestines, they con- 

 tained bloodv matters. 



In the cow that was killed, black blood flowed from the 

 wound. A large quantity of yellow serosity was found in the cavity 

 of the abdomen, and but little alteration was noted in some of 

 the viscera ; the gall-bladder was three or four times its natural 

 size, and filled with a green bile of a most disgusting odour. The 

 small intestines were slightly inflamed, and the lining membrane 

 covered with this bile; the reticulum (?) contained much food, 

 which looked as if baked. On the tongue were observed many 

 pustules containing an ichorous and fetid humour. The stench 

 was insupportable, and almost forbade an examination. 



In an ox which had died of the malady, the small intestines 

 were gangrenous; they contained a quantity of a substance simi- 

 lar to hog-wash or broken-up flesh. With the exception of a 

 little softness, perhaps, the other viscera were healthy; though the 

 gall-bladder was of great size, full of yellow bile, and there was a 

 great quantity of disagreeable matters around the mouth and the 

 nostrils. According to the accounts of those who took care of 



1 Bottani. Op. cit.^ p. 147. 



^ A. O. Goelicke. Med. de Lue Contagiosa Bovilium genus depopulante. 

 Francof. 1730. 



^ Haller. Dissertations, vol. v. p. 713. 



