^^8 History of Animal Plagtces. 



A.D. 1795- '^'"'6 winter was cold and the summer hot^ damp, 

 and rainy, after a late spring. Fruits were destroyed by blight, 

 and disease caused great loss among vegetables, especially pota- 

 toes and cabbages. Paper hangings and other furniture were 

 destroyed by the universal damp, which generated a white 

 mould. Anthrax yet very common and fatal in Bavaria ; and 

 in France sniall-pox committed great ravages among sheep.^ 

 An epizooty appeared among horses in Bavaria which was named 

 ' epizootic catarrh/ but which Plank says was acute glanders 

 [akuter rotz) ; it was believed to have been imported from 

 Aust 



ria 



2 



In this year^ and also in i8ii, Despallens describes the dis- 

 ease in calves due to the presence of filaria in the air-passages, 

 as being very prevalent.* 



A.D. 1796. The summer was hot and dry. A severe earth- 

 quake destroyed the whole country between Santa Fe and Pana- 

 ma, including the cities of Cusco and Quito. The seasons were 

 intemperate in the United States, and bilious and remittent 

 fevers were common among mankind.* Malignant anthrax 

 appeared among cattle in Lombardy.^ The Austrian troops in- 

 troduced the acute glanders mentioned last year as prevailing 

 among horses in Bavaria, into Franconia; one author, however, 

 (Pilger) asserts that he had already observed this disease in 1795, 

 and from that time until 1797, on the banks of the Rhine. It 

 destroyed many horses. The Military Train horses particularly 

 suffered from the malady, which was transmitted to very many of 

 the solipeds in the towns and villages, and caused great damage.** 



From 1796 to 1803, but especially in the years 1797 and 

 ^98, the egg rot was very destructive among bees in Saxony. 

 'The disease showed itself in 1796, after the bees had suffered 



Chevaux, Mules, et Mulcts de I'Armee Francaise, du Midi, qui s'est propageesur 

 presque tous les Chevaux des proprietaires, et atteint les particuliers qui les soignent. 

 Castres. During the Crimean war, I was in medical charge of a large number of 

 horses which were severely affected with mange, and had ample opportunity for 

 observing that the Turks who attended to them, rode them, and slept beside them, 

 using the saddles as pillows, suffered greatly from itch. 



1 Gilbert. Op. cit. ~ Flank. Op. cit. 



^ Despallens. Proces- Verbal, &c., a I'Ecole Vet. de Lyon, 181 2. 



* Bascome. Op. cit., p. 144. ^ Bottani. Op. cit., vol. vii. p. 144. 



^ Lmibcnder. Op. cit., p. 241. 



