History of Animal Plagues. 481 



every place this salutary measure had been put in practice, 

 the epizooty which was introduced into Spain in 1774 would 

 soon have been suppressed, and there would have been avoided 

 the great mortality and suffering that occurred, inasmuch as 

 in manv towns and villages there perished every head of cattle 

 without a single one remaining, — as happened, for instance, in 

 Andoin in the province of Alva ; neither did the contagion work 

 much less ruin in its progress through Navarre, Guipuzcoa, Ar- 

 ragon, the mountains of Santander and those of Pas. Notwith- 

 standing the precautions taken to destroy everything obnoxious, 

 as had been recommended by Dr Ortiz during the epidemy at 

 Pampeluna (a city of Spain), so great had been the ravages of 

 this epizooty in the kingdom of Granada, that but few cattle 

 remained; and despite the enforcement of the measures of bury- 

 ing the dead animals in deep pits, it was impossible to prevent 

 the stinking particles from rising into the air, though large 

 quantities of lime had been used over the burial-places, and with 

 much care. Escovar has made mention of this vaccineepizocityand 

 its origin ; according to him, it was notorious that the contagion 

 could be communicated from one to other animals, and i)e again 

 produced in them ; from these it could be carried to other pas- 

 tures, and for a lono; time it had inflicted sufterino; on manv 

 kingdoms, without any ground for suspicion having been laid as 

 to the contagious particles being disseminated by the air since 

 1708; from which cause it has become so universal in Europe, 

 and has so fret]uently and persistently induced such mortality 

 amongst animals.' 



An epizootv, supposed to be Cattle Plague, appeared at 

 Laxfield, in Suffolk. It would a])pear that it was conlincd to 

 this parish, if not to one herd of cattle. Its suppression was 

 supp(jsed to be due to the enforcement of the measures con- 

 tained in the Orders of Council, which were similar to those 

 already noticed as in existence in this country. Malignant 

 pneumonia prevailed in the provinces of Brescia and Crema, 

 Italv, during tbis and the precedini( year.^ 



A.D. 1775. The winter was very cold, and the sunniicr 



' Bottaiti. Op. cit., vol. vii. p. 78. 

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