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much less taken notice of than the first. In the one, the 

 horses coughed so vehemently in the street, and many of the 

 hackney-coach and cart-horses that were obliged to work, had 

 their noses in so nasty a condition, and so much exposed to 

 open view, that they could not avoid being seen by everybody. 

 But this other distemper was not so universally talked of, though 

 vast numbers were seized with it, and some died suddenly. 

 They were seized with a very hot, burning fever, and their flesh 

 seemed so sore and tender that they could scarce bear to be 

 touched. They were generally costive, staled but little, and 

 that with pain and straining, and of a very high colour. They 

 refused all manner of sustenance, and were so extremely sick 

 that they would not drink, neither did I perceive any of them 

 offer to lie down till their distemper came to a crisis. Upon 

 treating them with cooling and opening medicines, with plen- 

 tiful bleeding, they generally recovered. I was confirmed in 

 this method by several symptoms that appeared upon the turn 

 of the distemper, some of them having very hot and inflamed 

 eruptions, which broke out in several parts, with blisters resem- 

 bling St Anthony's fire, and some of them had large bags of 

 water on the sides of their bellies, or towards their flanks, which 

 the farriers called water farcy, but, indeed, was the effect of a 

 very hot and inflamed blood.' ^ 



In England, canine madness prevailed.^ Rutty writes : 

 'Spring very warm (and so in England), but followed by a 

 cold and nipping May, which hurted the fruits and burned the 

 grass. In February there was a very great rot among the hares. 

 In open winters there is a young spring of grass, which they 

 and the sheep feeding on, it proves pernicious.' ^ 



In October of this year, according to Albrecht, an epizootic 

 dysentery, accompanied by swelling of the head, attacked poultry, 

 especially geese, in the neighbourhood of Coburg. They died 

 with their bills open. In the grand duchy of Baden, gloss- 

 anthrax was somewhat prevalent,* 



A.D. 1735. Plague in Egypt amongst men. During the 

 winter in North America, an epidemy affecting the throat and 



^ Gibson. Op. cit., vol. i. " Webster. Op. cit. ^ Rutty, Op. cit. 

 * Wirth. Op. cit., p. 362. 



