542. History of Animal Plagues. 



thousand cats died of this epizooty at Copenhagen.^ In the next 

 month, October, it was prevailing at Bordeaux.^ 



In Stockhohn it was also observed in this year/ and in 

 Lusatia in the month of December.* 



In 1798 it showed itself in Holland/ and has been briefly 

 described by Schelver, probably in the following year. ^ The 

 disease in cats, which has lately raged in so many countries oi 

 Europe, had also spread itself over the diocese of Osnaburgh and 

 the neighbouring districts. For a year past it has now been gra- 

 dually disappearing.'" At Lyons it does not appear to have mani- 

 fested itself until 1798. ' An eruption of itch [gale) similar to that 

 of 1762, has shown itself at Lyons among the cats, and has nearly 

 destroyed them all." ^ In Piedmont it was observed by Buniva in 

 1798/ and in the same year in Lombardy,by Brera, it was remark- 

 ed in the summer months.^ At Vienna, according to Penada, the 

 disease killed more than twenty-five thousand cats; from this 

 localitv it spread by Carinthia and the Tyrol, into Friuli, Venice, 

 and Padua, in which place Penada saw it in the spring of '98. 

 It appears also to have extended to the Island of Zante, one of 

 the Ionian Islands to the south of Cephalonia, in the Mediter- 

 reanean, as it was noticed there by Rhuliere in this or the suc- 

 ceeding year/" The authority whom we have so often named — ■ 

 Heusinger — is of opinion that the dates of these various attacks 

 may lead us to infer that the direction taken by this singular epi- 

 zooty was from the north-west to south-east ; and the accounts of 

 it by Caldwell, Erdmann, and others would permit of the hypo- 

 thesis being received as at least plausible, that this malady was 



1 Hund'ms. Dissert. Morbi Epizootici Felibus an. 1797 fatalis liistoria. Viteberg, 

 1800, p. 6. 



- Journal de Sante de Bordeaux, vol. ii. p. 247. 



•* Electriska Kraftens marbardige starka rorelse och verkan or 1797, afoer 

 anmiirkd sosom formodad orsak til Katta Slagtes besynncrliga Pest i Hufvuclstaden. 

 Stockholm, 1798. 



■* Knebel. Laiisitzische Monatsschrift. Miirz, 1799. 



^ Seftstroin. Ny Journal uti hushollningen. 1 799. 



** Wiedemann. Archiv. fiir Zoologie und Zootomie, vol. i. 



■^ Ozanam. Hist, des Maladies Epid., vol. v. p. 371. 



* Buniva. Sedillot. Recueil per. de la Socicte de Medecine, vol. vii. p. 273. 



" Brera. Memoria sul attuale Epidemia del Gatti. Pavia, 1 798. 



^^ Hundius. Op. cit. 



