History of Animal Plagues. o^d^) 



apartj and burn them. But if a great number are attacked 

 at the same time, this means of smothering the disease will 

 be no longer practicable. It is then necessary to separate the 

 animals vet healthy, and keep them as far as possible from 

 the diseased; and no intercourse of any kind should be per- 

 mitted. 



He founded his medical treatment of the malady on the sup- 

 position that it was due to the presence of an animated or ver- 

 minous matter in the blood, similar to that which Pere Kircher 

 had asserted to exist in the plague of man, and Cogrossi and 

 Valisnieri in that of animals. 



Grashius wrote an excellent treatise on the Cattle Plague, in 

 which he asserted that he knew of six cows which had recovered 

 from the disease for more than fifteen days, and yet four of 

 them were attacked a second time and died.^ 



Mauchart writes from Tubingen in 1745 : ' Until this time 

 the disease has abated but little. It appears to be confined to the 

 bovine species alone, and does not aflect goats, horses, pigs, sheep, 

 or fowls; at least, very few examples to the contrary have occurred 

 in our locality; indeed, the only exception I heard of occurred 

 at Tubinsren, where it is said the disease was communicated 

 from a cow to a goat which was stabled with it, and which, after 

 a violent death, on being dissected, exhibited the gall-bladder 

 enlarij-ed and verv much distended. A certain man named 

 Respondens, remembers a similar incident which occurred at 

 Rcutlingen. Some fowls died in a very short time in one 

 house, and on their being examined it was reported that they 

 had greatly-distended gall-bladders. In the beech forests of 

 Wyliae, in a former winter, when the Cattle Plague raged there, 

 a certain man having slain his cows, which were seized with the 

 disease, threw the corrupted intestines to his pigs ; these likewise 

 became affected, and died of the disease. While this malady 

 raged, we were informed by credible authorities that wild beasts 

 had been found dead from this disease in the neighbouring 

 \\(jods. Wild boars, and, indeed, some of the deer tribe, were 



' Grashius. Uitgczote Verhand. uit dc nicuwste wcrkcii van do Socielcilcn 

 van Wctcnschappcn, 1758. 



