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the utmost difficulty, but the deep mark left by the carbuncle on 

 her arm still remained,' ^ 



After the great heat of the summer at Wetzlar, in Germany, 

 cattle were observed to die very suddenly, probably from the dis- 

 ease we have just been describing.^ The same malady (anthrax 

 — here called Femjn) was very frequent in Dutch Friesland in 

 the month of September.^ 



The same affection was remarked in France in August,* and 

 Brugnone tells us that it committed dreadful havoc among the 

 horses of some regiments of dragoons at Fossano, near Turin. ^ 

 Gangrenous pneumonia was observed among cattle at Limousin 

 by Bourgelat,*^ and this author says that glanders (which may 

 have only been catarrh) was general among horses at Paris 

 in the spring and summer.'' A malignant and contagious form 

 of dysentery, which may have been the Cattle Plague, appeared 

 among the cattle in the Venetian provinces of Friuli, Padua, 

 and Verona, from the month of September, 1783, until March, 



1784-^ 



A.D. 1784. The winter was long and cold. In Siberia the 

 Yasva, or anthrax, was calculated to have destroyed more than 

 100,000 horses.^ ' In July, 1784, at Chalons and in its neigh- 

 bourhood, the cows and mares have nearly all aborted.' ^^ Ac- 

 cording to Bottani, in February glossanthrax prevailed at Bergamo, 

 Italy.^-^ 



It is recorded in the Russian Agricultural Archives, that the 

 Cattle Plague passed from Flungary into Italy in this year. 

 This probably refers to last year's invasion. Wirth says it ex- 

 tended to Germany. 



A.D. 1785. Canine madness raging all over the Northern 



^ C. ChisJwlm. On the Lues Bovina Intertropica. Edinburgh Medical and 

 Surgical Journal, vol. vi. pp. i},, 36. 



^ Held. Anweisung das Rindvieh zu behandeln. Wetzlar, 1783. 



^ Camper. Krankheiten welche Thieren und Mcnschen gemein sind, p. 23. 



* Chabert. Op. cit., vol. iv. p. 259. 



^ Bnignone. Instructions, &c., vol.'^vi. p. 227. 



^ Journal de Paris, 1785. '' Beitrage z. Thierarzneik, vol. i. p. 226. 



^ Bottani. Vol. iii. p. 97. 



9 Annal. de Med. Vet, 1854. 



^" RIoiseaii. Instructions, &c., vol. vi. p. 130. 

 ' ^- Bottani. Vol. iii. p. 113. 



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