53^ History of Aniiual Plagues. 



cattle from July until October, after the great heat of the wea- 

 ther, scanty forage, and scarcity of water.^ 



In this year, the events of war again made that terrible scourge, 

 — the Cattle Plague, known to many countries. It was imported 

 into Lombardy by Russian and Austrian troops, who drew their 

 supplies of cattle and oxen from those regions in which the disease 

 is indigenous, or the cattle of which are liable, when exposed to 

 certain exciting causes, to develope it. At the end of the year it 

 was introduced into Piedmont by Hungarian cattle destined for 

 the supply of an Austrian army, and which communicated it to 

 the cattle of Lomeline, and of Alessandria, Novara, and Tortona; 

 it was soon spread all over Italy, where it prevailed until j8oi. 

 The Italian epizooty has been ably described by the undermen- 

 tioned authors.2 Sheep were said to be attacked by it in Friuli, 

 as well as the horned cattle. In 1795, it was carried into 

 Southern Germany, and it raged with great fury in Bavaria, Sua- 

 bia,^Baden,|Wurtemberg, Franconia, Hesse, and Nassau, being 

 brought or maintained there by the continual passage of droves of 

 Hungarian cattle, which traversed those countries to reach the 

 Austrian army on the Rhine, or by the passage of troops who took 

 with them infected cattle as their supplies. The German writers 

 have left us exact descriptions by which the disease may be easily 

 identified; those of Walz for Wurtemberg, Ackermann and 

 Will for Bavaria, Stoll, Metzler, Reich, and Megele maybe here 

 mentioned, as well as Albert, Reich, and Schaller for Erlangen.^ 



^ Laube7ider. Ueber den Milzbrand. Munich, 1814, p. 163. 

 ^ Bimiva. Memoire sur I'Epizoutie Bos-Hongroise, &c. Turin, 1793. Ibid. 

 Mem. cont. le provvidenze contio I'Epizoozia nelle Bovine. Turin, 1797. Ibid. 

 Raggionamento sull'..Eccidio, &c. Turin, 1798. Moscati. Compendio di Cog- 

 nizioni Veterinarie. Milan, 1795. This work contains also the observations of 

 Deho, Gherardini, and Bonviciuo. Bottaiii. Vol. vii. pp. 149— 217. Aduiolji, 

 Sanseverino, and Zacchiroli. Compendio di Osservazioni, &c. Spoleto, 1801. 



2 The principal German works on the epizooty at this period are the following :— 

 C. G. Fred. Albert. Historia Pestis Bovillce, by Gothfredus Fleischmann. Erlan- 

 gen. De Lues BovillcTS. Origine et Natura. Erlangen, 1797. A'ansc/i. Kame- 

 ralprinzipien iiber das Rindviehsterben. Berlin, 1793. Schallern. Deutliche An- 

 weisung die Loserdiirre zu erkennen und sicher zu heilen. Baireit, 1797. Reich. 

 Richtige und gewissenhafte Belehrung fiir den Landmann iiber die Rindvieh- 

 seuche und Inoculirung derselben. Numberg, 1798. Stoll. Beobachtungen 

 iiber die Rindviehpest far Thierarzte, Physiker und Polizeibeamteten. Zurich, 

 1800. Fi-ank. Ueberadie Rinderpest und die Mittel sic zu heilen und auszurotten. 

 Berlin, 1802. Walz. Natur und Behandlungsart der Rinderpest, &c. Stuttgart, 



