History of Animal Plagues. 527 



peared.^ In France anthrax appeared at Moulins, and in Dau- 

 phine,'- but, perhaps, most notably in the month of July, in the 

 province of Ouercy, department of Lot, where it was propagated 

 over a wide extent of country ; it only broke out among cattle, 

 but it was in many instances transmitted to men and mules.^ 

 In Savoy epizootic croup was prevalent. ' Although the croup 

 was not contagious, yet it was sometimes epizootic. In the 

 latter case, it was surprising that the animals of every age should 

 be observed in the year 1786 to suffer in a few communes of the 

 department of Sesia. The greater portion of the bovine species 

 was attacked by the disease/* 



In some parts of Bavaria pneumonia seriously affected cattle, 

 and rot also prevailed among sheep.^ 



Arquinet observed the catarrhal fever or ' distemper' of dogs 

 in an epizootic form at Pezenas, in the month of July. He also 

 complains of the dreadful ravages it had caused among dogs 

 in that nci^hbonrhood for upwards of twenty years." 



A.D. 1787. The epizootics of glossanthrax and pneumonia 

 continued this year in Italy and Germany. In February, on 

 the banks of the Iser and the Danube, in Bavaria, an cpi- 

 zootv of sheep small-pox broke out, and was very deadly/ This 

 attack lasted for many years; the disease has, indeed, been sup- 

 posed to prevail there more or less since that time. 



In Ireland, 'The wetness of the season excited apprehension 

 of disorder among the sheep — particularly the murrain;'^ which 

 was characterized by blisters itpoji the mouth. Was this a mild 

 form of the glossanthrax so prevalent on the Continent ? 



A.D. 1788. The weather in this year was very irregular, the 

 changes of temperature being very sudden and severe. The 

 winter in England was long and hard. The sunnner tempera- 

 ture was very high, and storms were frequent. Influenza was 



« Ilannov. Magaz. 1786, p. 1207. 



* Chabert. Instructions Vctcr., vol. ii. p. 279. 



3 Dcsplas. Sur la Maladie Cliarbonncusc qui a attaqu6 les Bestiaux du Qucrcy 

 en 1786. Instructions, &c., vol. ii. p. 283. 



* Togt;ia. Mai. de Buoi, vol. i. p. 31. 



* Plank. V(;terinar-topo{,aaphic von Baicrn, p. 137. 

 Wirth. Op. cit., p. 215. 



' Laubcndcr. Op. cit., p. 1 33. " Dublin Chronicle. 



