37^ Histoiy of Animal Plagues. 



throat, the tongue and nostrils^ and at times even the brain. 

 The third compartment of the stomach was always particularly 

 affected. The disease never varied in its character in attacking 

 one part of the animal more than another, and it was always ac- 

 companied by very great prostration of strength. It differed from 

 the measles and small-pox of man, and Camper asserted that it 

 should always be treated as a putrid fever. Jt was not a simple 

 * inflammatory fever ; if it were, soothing remedies would be salu- 

 tary. Bleeding was always injurious. A singular circumstance 

 noted, was that cattle which had recovered were not ao-ain 

 affected by it. 



The only means of averting the contagion was to prohibit 

 the introduction into the country of diseased or suspected cattle 

 from those regions where the malady prevailed, as well as hay, 

 straw, or other matters, and even men and animals. 



Inoculation was extensively resorted to by Camper, and 

 many able men have asserted that to the adoption of this remedy 

 and the other experiments by which this physician undertook to 

 cure the disease, Holland was longer in getting rid of the plague 

 than any other country.^ 



It may be remarked that Engelman, in Holland in 1763, 

 treats of the malady in a similar manner to Camper, and the 

 'fact that sheep and goats were liable to the contagion did not 

 escape him ; so that we have three observers at this period 

 who mention such an occurrence. He says : ' It is not with- 

 out danger that we allow sheep and goats to run about the con- 

 taminated stables or pastures, because these animals themselves 

 can readily be affected, and at any rate the virulent element 

 may attach itself to their wool and hair, and in this way be 

 transmitted to the herds of cattle.^ ^ 



In Franche-Comte the disease was named miirie^ (murrain). 

 Each writer designated it after his own ideas as to its nature. 



^ Some excellent letters on this invasion of Cattle Plague appeared in the 

 French Newspapers during the progress of the disease. 1 woidd particularly re- 

 commend to the attention of the student those which were inserted in the Meiriire 

 de France for June, 1 745, April, 1 747, and at other times. 



- Engelman. Verhandlung uitg. door de HoU. Maatsch. van Wetenschappen, 

 1763, p. 280. 



2 Registres de la Faculte de Paris,' 1 745. 



