394 History of Animal Plagties. 



and the lips from gangrene were quite frequent concomitants.^ 

 According to Camper,^ the French army operating in West- 

 phalia introduced the Cattle Plague to Minden. Avery peculiar 

 carbuncularepizooty appeared in France, in the province of Brie, 

 at the end of the summer and commencement of the autumn, 

 among horses, cattle, deer, asses, hogs, dogs, and fowls, and even 

 in fish.^ The malady appears to have arisen in the marshy forest 

 of Crecy, and to have raged in its vicinity to such an extent that, 

 from the 15th of June to the 31st of July, 490 animals were 

 attacked, of which 390 (162 horses, 80 oxen, 38 asses) died. 

 Many flocks of sheep perished in various cantons of Brie. Hu- 

 man beings were also affected by the disease being transmitted 

 to them. 



In some places asses, in others horses, and in others, agam, 

 only cattle were affected. At one place the reporter, M. de 

 Chaignebrun, observed that bulls were more commonly affected 

 than cows; and that usually in the stables or cow-sheds where 

 the people were not careful to separate the diseased from the un- 

 affected, these became ill. The premonitory symptoms were a 

 heaviness of the head, the eyes somewhat closed, heavy, and 

 dull; pain and difficulty when at work, or in walking; suddenly 

 stopping in progression ; a particular way of turning the head ; 

 feebleness of the limbs; lassitude; a diminution of milk in cows; 

 diflficulty in breathing ; the cessation, partial or complete, of 

 rumination, &c. The disease when fully declared was marked 

 by stupor; the eyes were extremely sunken, dull, purulent, and 

 tearful ; the ears more or less drooping, the head carried near 

 the ground, and the body unsteady and sinking. They 

 flexed the thighs; pawed, and appeared uneasy and in pain. 

 The respiration was hurried ; the flanks beat violently ; they 

 either lay down or attempted to do so ; the beatings of the heart 

 were loudly heard ; some had symptoms of colic, moaned, and 

 refused to eat their food. The most remarkable symptom, and 

 that which characterized this disease in particular, was the form- 



1 Fink. Pockenkrankheit d. S chafe, p. i. 

 - Camper. Von der Viehseuche, p. 67. 



^ A. de Chatgneb>-un. Relation d'une Maladie Epidemique et Contagieuse, 

 &c. Paris, 1762. 



