490 History of Animal Plagues. 



A.D, T778. An earthquake at Smyrna in July. Scarlet fever 

 and epidemic angina in mankind were very prevalent in many 

 countries, but particularly in England and Holland. From 

 July to September, an epizooty of anthrax showed itself in 

 Thuringia and many other parts of Germany. Cattle, horses, 

 asses, goats, pigs, and deer of all kinds were affected ; many 

 hundreds of the latter died.^ After this epizooty had ceased in 

 September, an epizooty of 'ekzema^ appeared.^ In Austria the 

 two diseases reigned at the same time.^ In Limoges, France, 

 anthrax was epizootic ; ^ and in Picardv, that peculiar form of 

 skin disease in sheep called nolr-museau was very common.^ 



According to Kausch, bovine contagious pleuro-pneumonia 

 prevailed as a veritable plague in Upper Silesia from this year 

 until 1790.'^ It prevailed at the same time in the kingdom of 

 Wurtemberg; the commonalty of 7\ittlingen, in 1777, had lost 

 about 150 cattle from the malady.'^ 



A.D. 1779. In the district of Belluno, in Italy, it was reported 

 that a number of people and domesticated animals had been bitten 

 by a mad wolf in the month of March, and that many of these 

 died of hydrophobia.^ At Bourges, in France, in the same 

 month, a mad wolf bit a child, and this manifested symptoms of 

 rabies.^ 



At Philadelphia and Maryland, in America, rabies canina 

 was very common.'" 



In Istria, bovine epizootic pleuro-pneumonia prevailed from 

 this year until 1780.'^ 



In Switzerland, glossanthrax was observed/^ 



In the marshy districts of Picardy, in France, an 'epizootic 

 typhoide,^ as it has been termed, appeared among cattle. It was 

 described by Vicq-d'Azyr, and at that time seems to have been 



^ Glaser. Von der Knotenkrankheit. pp. 3, 7, 32. ^ ibj^i, p, 122, 



^ Adami. Beitrage zur Geschichte der Viehseuchen. Vienna, 1781. 



* Gazette d' Agriculture, 1778. 



^ Hist, de la Soc. Roy. de Med., vol. i. p. 251. 



^ Kausch. Originalbemerkungen Uber die Rindviehsterben. Leipsic, 1790. 



' IVirth.' Op. cit., p. 299. 



^ Odoardi ; Bottani. Op. cit., vol. xi. p. 328. 



^ Journal de Medecine, vol. liv. p. 398, 



^^ Richtcr. Chirurg. bibl., vol. xiv. p. 278. 



'' Oriis ; Bottani. Op. cit, vol. liv. p. 380. i- Schnurrer, Op. cit. 



