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account. It made yet greater progress in the cantons where 

 trade was not rigorously watched, and where animals were sold 

 at any price because they had communicated with the infected. 

 The dealers then took them to the different villages, which could 

 not fail to be infected in their turn. Here, again, it was con- 

 cluded that the malady jumped, and that it was not contracted 

 by contagion. We ought to regard an infected stable, he asserts, 

 as a centre which exposes all those around it to an infinity of im- 

 minent dangers from communication. 



De Berg thought the disease a new one in Europe, and 

 altogether unique ; differing as it did from all other epizootics in 

 only disappearing from a place when thoroughly extirpated, and 

 bidding defiance to the seasons. When recoveries took place, 

 they were to be attributed more to nature than to the remedies 

 employed, and the same might be said of the preservative 

 remedies. 



A curious fact is noted. The pious, but little enlightened 



I zeal of some individuals, in 1773, caused all the cattle in the 



, village of Tumaide, in Hainault, to be collected in the cemetery, 



with the exception of eleven, which stood in a cow-shed some 



.' distance apart. The number assembled amounted to two hundred 



' and thirteen, amongst which only three or four infected beasts 



were recognized ; though they only remained together for an 



hour, yet they all contracted the disease, which was manifested 



in the space of a month, and the eleven kept in the isolated 



stable alone escaped. 



The principal symptoms observed did not vary in any par- 

 ticular from those already recorded. Bellerocq noticed that, in 

 some, the mouth was open and gasping, and that sometimes the 

 anus was relaxed and the rectum protruded. The directors of 

 the Veterinary School remarked, in the first stage of the malady, 

 a peculiar agitation and shaking of the head, which was carried 

 close to the ground; plaintive sighs were frequent; and if some 

 blood was drawn from the animal, it looked black, and did not 

 yield any serosity after standing a while. About the fourth or 

 fifth day the flanks began to beat very irregularly; the pulse 

 became feeble and inconstant, and the strength quickly disap- 

 peared. The discharge from the nostrils was thick and fetid \ 



