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to resort to severe measures, in order to carry out the orders of 

 the king. In giving these orders to an officer who was to have 

 command under such circumstances, it was easy for him to dis- 

 tribute his men in such a way as to prevent the transmission and 

 the deadly eflects of the epizootic contagion. 



' I thought that the best way to make known the danger of 

 this epizooty would be to lind out how many head of cattle had 

 died in a district of eight parishes, and how many had been cured 

 from the loth of Julv, the date of the outbreak, till the 7th of 

 September. In consequence of this, the syndics of these parishes 

 ordered an exact statement to be prepared, and it is from these 

 that I have been able to draw up the following table. 



Animals which Animals cured . • i Animals 



Parishes. ' have died of of the Animals ^^^ 



the epizooty. epizooty. a l -. j healthy. 



De Rossan 68 61 — — 



De Maintenai .... 41 20 10 151 



De Nampont-Saint-Firmin 95 99 10 57 



De Montigny .... 43 20 2 4 



De Preaux 56 27 — 22 



De Nampont-Saint-Martin 33 4 — 187 



De Noyelles 36 31 33 16 



De Vron 13 i 13 390 



Totals . 385 263 68 821 



' The results of this enumeration are as follows : from the 

 loth of July to the 7th of September — i. 385'Jicad of cattle died, 

 and of these 298 succumbed before help could be given ; 2. 263 

 animals were cured, out of which 207 had been treated according 

 to the method laid down in this Memoir; 3. 68 cattle remained 

 sick, of uhich number 51 have been cured; 4. 821 beasts re- 

 mained unaffected. In this statement it is seen that the total of 

 those which died surpasses the number cured; but it is necessary 

 to observe — i. That the majority (jf the cattle perished before 

 my arrival. 2. 'I'hat the peasants had killed a number in 

 having recourse to a regime truly incendiary. As a proof of 

 this, I may mention that 13 cows at Vron succumbed in a 

 few days to the treatment of a shei)herd, who administered 

 to them a decoction of the most irritating kinds ol" herbs, such 



