364 History of Animal Plagues. 



also observed to have perished.^ During almost the whole time 

 of this plague amongst cattle diseases were very rare in man- 

 kind, and neither by endemic nor epidemic maladies were they 

 increased whatsoever. Only here and there one or two died 

 from various sporadic affections. Strange to remark^ of all the 

 men who were engaged in tending and nursing the sick cows dying 

 from the epizooty, and of those employed in moving, flaying, 

 and burying them, and breathing the thick, foul-smelling vapours, 

 each and all remained safe and healthy.^ ^ This was written at 

 Tubingen, where the disease raged. 



The same author, in another work,^ has given a good de- 

 scription of the maladv. He alludes to goats being susceptible 

 to its influence, and recommends their separation from the dis- 

 eased cattle. 



The physician Ens* gives a description of the Cattle 

 Plague as it appeared at Halberstadt, in Lower Saxony. It 

 differed slightly from the disease elsewhere in being more acute, 

 and accompanied by more inflammation. It manifested itself at 

 first by an acute fever, marked by a hard pulse, an ardent heat, and 

 excessive thirst ; the breath was fetid, the urine high-coloured 

 and in small quantity, the blood fluid and black, the nose dis- 

 charging mucus, and all the body agitated ; the walk unsteady, 

 and the limbs vacillating. The animal carried its head low, and 

 bellowed frequently. The secretion of milk w^as suppressed in 

 the cows. The diseased creatures died tranquilly on the third, 

 fourth, fifth, or sixth day ; some few in two or three weeks. A 

 small number had dysentery. This author appears to have 

 established the prognosis of the malady principally on the 

 nature of the intestinal discharges. If the evacuation of the 

 excrements, which diminished always at the commencement, 

 became established again, all the symptoms ceased in a short 

 time ; but when dysentery complicated the symptoms, the result 



^ This disease of the porcine tribe may have been an epizooty of inflammatory 

 fever or anthrax— not the Cattle Plague. 



2 Haller. Disput., vol. iii. p. 846. ^ Bucard-Maitchart. Med. de lue 



vaccarum Tubingensi. Tubingen, 1745. 



* Abraham Ens. Disquisitio Anatomico-Pathologica de Morbo. Boum. Hal- 

 berstadt, 1746. 



