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pea ranee, especially in the pinncc of its 

 leaves.* 



* A few further remarks on the above subject, 

 printed in ihe Beivra Lappuriica, may be acceptable to 

 the Enghsh reader. 



'* This disease made no regular progress, nor was it 

 communicated by inrecfionlroni one animal to another. 

 The cows are driven all together in the spring to feed 

 in a meadow, near the town, to the southwest, on the 

 other side of a creek of the river, in vihich I was in- 

 formed the greatest mortality happened. The sym- 

 ptoms differ in different cases ; but all the cattle, feed- 

 ing indiscriiTiinately, are seized with a swelling of the 

 abdomen, attended with convulsions, and die with 

 horrid bellowing, in the space of a few days. No per- 

 son dares venture to flay the recent carcases, it having 

 been found by experience that not only the hands, but 

 even the face, in consequence of the warm steams 

 from the body, became inflamed and gangrenous, and 

 that death finally ensued. 



" I was asked whether this disease was a kind of 

 plague; whether the meadow in question produced 

 any venomous spiders ; or whether the yellow-colour- 

 ed water was poisonous. 



" That it was no plague aj^peared from its not being 

 contagious, and from the spring being its most fatal 

 season. 1 saw no spiders here, except what are com- 

 mon throughout all Sweden; nor was the yellow 



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