5 28 History of Animal Plag^ies. 



observed in mankind. During and after the heat^ anthrax ap- 

 peared so suddenly in some parts of Germany, that in the small 

 districts of Pfaffenhofen^ Neustadt, Vohburg, and Krandsberg, 

 247 horses, 389 oxen, and 201 pigs died before any assist- 

 ance could be obtained.^ 



The same malady raged in Silesia during the summer, and 

 in the month of August it made great havoc among cattle in the 

 marshy country of Villeneuve-les-Cerfs, department of Allier, in 

 France.^ 



A.D. 1789. The winter was cold in Europe, and the long and 

 severe frost did much damage; the summer was wet, and the 

 autumn cold. Earthquakes were felt in Iceland in July, Sep- 

 tember, and November; the latter shocks were experienced in 

 Scotland and in Italy. A remarkable circumstance was observed 

 in this year: the codfish did not appear at the usual fishing- 

 ground at Newfoundland, neither did it visit the English coasts 

 or the Baltic at the usual time. In the month of July, however, 

 great quantities were observed about the coasts of Norway, Lap- 

 land, and Archangel, dead or dying.^ It had been remarked in 

 1788, that almost all the codfish taken on the Banks of New- 

 foundland were thin and sickly, and when dried w^re little better 

 than skeletons, and scarcely saleable in foreign markets. Mildew 

 destroyed much corn in Scotland.* In America, in the month 

 of October, an alinost universal darkness overspread the land, 

 and diseases were very prev^alent in the form of anginas, croup, 

 and bilious fevers.^ In this year the crops failed, and cattle also 

 perished in considerable numbers in North America. In that 

 country, dogs likewise suffered much from rabies, and in the 

 State of New York a man died of hydrophobia, induced, it was 

 •supposed, from his having skinned a cow that had died of that 

 malady. Influenza was very severe in New York and Philadel- 

 phia, and over a large tract of that continent ; at the same time 

 there was great mortality among the horses in Maryland.'' 

 Canine rabies was epizootic at Miinstcr, in Westphalia.^ 



^ 'Laiibender. Op. cit., vol. i. p. 134. ^ Instructions, &c., vol. iv. p. 256. 



3 Abbs. Philosophical Transactions, 1792. 



'* Sinclair's Scotland. ^ Bascome. Op. cit., p. 140. 



•^ Courant, Dec. 31, 17S9. ' Wirth. P. 236. 



