History of Aniuial Plagues. 423 



to further observation, how far such mortal epidemical diseases 

 among the brutes may or may not be a prelude to the pestilence 

 among men, which by the divine poet is described as walking in 

 darkness, Psalm xci. 6.' 



* A mortal pestilence among horses and mules in Provence ; 

 and among poultry in England/ ^ 



The aphthous disease mentioned in last year as showing itself 

 in the lower animals in certain regions continued this year, and 

 extended itself to other countries. In some of these it appears 

 to have differed somewhat in its features, though it was general 

 in nearly all the domestic animals. It was observed in Holland, 

 and in Holstein, at Nordhausen, to affect horses, cattle, sheep, 

 and pigs, &c, ; - and it was prevalent in Henneberg and Thur- 

 ingia,^ in Saxony,* in Westphalia, in the Rhine provinces, and 

 in Wurtemberg/ where it was known as the zungenkrebs or 

 mundfdide. In Franconia and Suabia its appearance had been 

 remarked from the month of July. 'The horned cattle were 

 attacked by a great fever in the head ; they began to sputter and 

 to run from the eyes; the nose and mouth began to swell, and 

 — especially on the palate — white, and in the nose yellow, pus- 

 tules showed themselves ; these after a time scabbed over and 

 fell off, and the tongue became quite sore. Similar eruptions 

 showed themselves between the hoofs, and in cows even upon 

 the udders ; so that in milking the scabs were rubbed off, until at 

 length they ceased to give milk if the sickness lasted long. Some 

 cattle continued to eat well, but others lost their appetite. The 

 same kind of pustules manifested themselves on sheep, pigs, &c.' "^ 

 ' All the cattle, those at pasture as well as those kept in stalls, 

 and those also in process of fattening, have the following 

 symptoms : between the claws, both before and behind, the skin 

 is quite white, and cracks appear, which suppurate ; some, how- 

 ever, have not this symptom. Those people who wash these 

 abrasions too much keep the cattle longer lame and sick ; but 

 those who let nature have its course may use them again in nine 



1 The Repository. - Paulct. Op. cit. , vol. i. p. 397. 



3 Glaser. AbhancUung. v. d. Knotenkrankheit, &c., p. 1 33. 



♦ Clarus U7td Radius. Beitriige. Vol. viii. p. 325. 

 ' Cassdcr. Poliz. und Commerz. Zcltschrift, 1764. 



* Friinkische Sainmlung, vii. p. 544. 



