530 History of Animal Plagues, 



In Wurtemberg, in this and the following years, many cattle 

 and sheep died from rot and flukes in the liver, ^ In the past 

 spring, one had, at Klein Glattbach, frequent opportunities of 

 verifying the following observations : many of the pregnant 

 ewes suffering from flukes in the liver brought forth lambs, all 

 of which, although they had no other sustenance than their 

 mothers' milk, nor had been ever driven to the meadows, or 

 drunk water, yet after a short time died from the malady their 

 parent had; in all about thirty-five perished. On examination, 

 flukes of a small size were found in their livers, the ffall-bladders 

 were much enlarged, and half a measure of water was found in 

 the cavity of their abdomens/ ^ 



In Croatia, Krain, and the Tyrol, an epizooty of what was 

 said to be malignant dysentery was very deadly,^ but Heusinger 

 is of opinion that it was probably the Cattle Plague. 



Enzootic anthrax killed many cattle in Auvergne, France.^ 



At Cairo, during the plague in man, cats died in large num- 

 bers.* 



Drous:ht and death of cattle in Antigua, West Indies. ' In 

 the year 1789, there was no fall of rain for seven months, where- 

 by there was not only no crop of sugar, but 5000 head of 

 horned cattle perished for want of water.' ^ 



A.D. 1790-1. In America the winter was very severe; the 

 spring and summer was cold, but dry, and catarrhs and yellow 

 fever prevailed. Blight destroyed the fruit and other vegetable 

 productions, and caterpillars and other parasites ate up the grass 

 and corn, especially in Maryland." In April, 1790, was a pro- 

 digious draucrht of shad fish at New York, which was said to 

 forebode the pestilential fever that began in autumn.^ In Ger- 

 many every species of clover was covered with honev-dew blight 

 {mehlthait). In many provinces of France rot, dropsies, and dis- 

 eases caused bv vermin were prevalent. From May until Sep- 



^ BilJnther. Ueber die Egelkrankheit unter dem Rindvieh und den Schafen. 

 Tubingen, 179 1. 



2 Bottani. Op. cit. , vol. iii. p. 124 — 140. 



^ Instructions, &c., vol. ii. pp. 268, 280. 



"^ Enrico di Volmar. Pest., p. 178. 



^ B. Edwards. Hist. West Indies, vol. i. p. 485. 



^ Bascome. Op. cit., p. 141. '' T. Eorster. Op. cit., p. 174. 



