History of Anivial Plagues. 401 



Influenza appeared in Stirlingshire, and in the north of 

 Scotland^ in the months of September and October, and horses 

 seem to have been affected ^ with a cold and a cough ' at the 

 onset of the attack in nian.^ Vast numbers of horses died 

 during this year in London and neighbourhood, from an epi- 

 zooty." Probably it was this ' influenza/ 



It has been remarked that in these years the Cattle Plao;ue 

 was repeatedly imported into the Prussian States, but without be- 

 coming general.'' 



A.D. 1759. Three comets were seen this year, and an earth- 

 quake was reported, which was severely felt at Balbek, and 

 destroyed Tripoli, in December. An epidemy in Peru, com- 

 mencing in the same way and place as that of 1720. 'Dogs 

 partook of the disorder, and they might be seen stretched in the 

 streets without ability to stand on their feet; yet it was observed 

 of them, as of well-con stitutioned men, that though many 

 sufl^ered, few dicd.'^ 



From the 3rd of September of this year to the 9th of April, 

 1 761, an epizooty appeared amongst cattle in Austria, and 

 gradually extended through the whole of the provinces of the 

 State of Venice.^ Heusinger thinks that it was in all probability 

 a pulmonic affection.'' 



A.D. 1760. An eruption of Mount Vesuvius and an earth- 

 quake in Syria. The winter was extremely cold, especially in 

 the north, and the summer was very hot and dry. Pestilence in 

 mankind raoed in Cartha2:ena in the form of tertian fever. The 

 Ottoman empire also suffered severely from plague. In the river 

 Dive, in the department of Calvados, France, an epizootic dis- 

 ease was observed amongst the fish. ' Since the year 1760, there 

 have been observed two or three kinds of epizootic diseases amongst 

 the fish in the river Dive. The mortality has not been general, 

 it is true; but besides those which have perished, the greater 

 portion were sickly and weak, and floated on the surface of the 



1 R. Whytt. Medical Observations and Inquiries, vol. ii. p. 192. 



2 Bascome. Op. cit., p. 128. 



* Beitrage z. Gescliichte d. Viehs. in d. Mark. Brandenburg, p. 31. 



* Dr Unanue. Sobre el Clima de Lima. Trans. Epid. Soc, vol. ii. 



* Bollani. Op. cit., vol. iii. p. 21—64. 



* ITeushigcr. Rcchcrches, &c., vol. ii. p. 234. 



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