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had attacked the woody and mountainous districts, so did the 

 mouth disease {maulweli) show itself ahnost generally in low and 

 flat districts, and it lasted from the spring until the autumn of 

 1776. In some neighhourhoods oxen alone were affected; but 

 in others, however, oxen and cows suffered, the latter with less 

 severity. In many localities and sheds it attacked nearly the 

 whole of the stock in one day, but in most cases the animals 

 were attacked one after another. Here and there this disease 

 accompanied the anthrax; and in some woody neighbourhoods 

 the oxen were attacked with the latter disease after they had re- 

 covered from the former/^ 



In 1776, glanders continued to rage in an epizootic form in 

 France,^ 



A.D. 1777- An earthquake in England. Scarlet fever was 

 epidemic in many countries, and in England and France was 

 complicated with malignant sore-throat or diphtheria. In the 

 month of May in the preceding year, glossanthrax had appeared 

 among cattle at Fossano, near Turin ; and in March of this year 

 'angina gangrenosa' developed itself among the horses of a regi- 

 ment of dragoons at Dora, near Turin. Brugnone describes it : 

 * This malady began in a single horse on the 29th of March, and 

 this animal died in the space of thirty hours ; the following day 

 it attacked two more, and these died — the one in eighteen and 

 the other in thirty-four hours; on the 31st ten more sickened, 

 four of which were cured, two in four days, one in five, and the 

 other in eight days; all the others died, one in nine hours, one 

 in twelve, one in thirteen, and one in twenty-one hours, another 

 died in three days, and the sixth horse in four days. On the 

 first of April other three became unwell, one of which was cured 

 in five days, and the other two died, — one in nine hours, and the 

 second in three days; on the 2nd of April only one was attacked, 

 which died in two days; on the 3rd three sickened, of which two 

 died in two days and one in three; on the 4th two others be- 

 came ill, and one recovered in three days; the other, after being 

 sick for four days, was killed when apparently recovered ; lastly, 



• ^(/rtw/.J tViehseuchen in'den K. K. Erblandcrn, \). 105. 

 ^ Kirchiur. Magazin fiir Tliicrhcilkuiidc, 1S65. 



