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distemper is suffered to get a-head, there is little hopes of a 

 recovery ; this sickness among the cattle being evidently a most 

 inflammatory and pestilential fever_, admitting of no delay ; for 

 if once the inflammation be suffered to form, or fix on the lungs 

 and other viscera or bowels, very little hope is then left/ ^ 



On the 30th of August, 1748, it was announced that the 

 justices of the peace in several counties where the distemper had 

 raged among the horned cattle, had certified to the Privy Coun- 

 cil that the infection had ceased. In the month of September of 

 the same year, however, it was declared that the distemper among 

 the horned cattle had broken out afresh about Burton-upon- 

 Trent, in Buckinghamshire, and also near Camberwell, in Surrey. 

 In the month of September, 1749, a report from Manchester was 

 published, to the effect that the plague had reached Lancashire, 

 and that it continued to rage in the counties of York and Dur- 

 ham. The distemper raged in the month of November, i750j» 

 in the Isle of Ely and some parts of Suffolk. In the month of 

 May, i75i,itwas reported that, in consequence of ' the infection 

 among the horned cattle raging in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and 

 Westmoreland, the justices of the peace of the neighbouring 

 county of Cumberland have, at their quarter sessions, ordered the 

 roads to be strictly guarded for preventing the introduction of 

 cattle, hides, carcases, or tallow, from any adjacent English county. 

 The said distemper is broke out also in the counties of Wilts 

 and Oxford, which has alarmed the justices of the counties of 

 Gloucester, Hereford, and Monmouth ; and the justices of So- 

 mersetshire have forbid the bringing of cattle from Wales, Wilt- 

 shire, and Gloucestershire, on advice that the distemper is spread 

 into those parts.' On the 26th of February, 1752, it was stated 

 that the justices, at their respective sessions, had announced that 

 the distemper was raging in the parishes of Ash Church and 

 Bcckford, in Gloucestershire; in several parts of Buckingham- 

 shire, and the adjacent counties ; within the division of Holland, 

 and in several other parts of Lincolnshire; and in the counties 

 of York, Lancaster, and Derby. In the month of March, it 

 was declared that the disease seemed to be much abated; In 



' A Treatise on the Plague and Pestilential Fevers, with some Observations on 

 the Pestilential Fever now raging among the Horned Cattle. London, I75'i. 



