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which: deftroyed many, and has continued to this day. The 
diftempers that befel thefe feverak kinds of animals, were faid 
not to have been known in the country: before, tmdre ‘efpecially 
that which has affe&ed neat cattle, and which has generally been 
confidered as anew difeafe : Some, however, have fappofed it 
toi be the fimde which froni time ‘to time has made ravages in 
Eurape; andmot elp e ially i 1n- Eng ‘land. ^ Whsther i it was ever 
knowa:there is uncertain. It evidently differs. from thol which 
Englifh writers have mentioned as proving fatal to théir cattle. 
The compilers of the complete body of hufbandry, repüblifhed 
in-1768, make no mention of this diforder, though they have. 
treated largely of the diforders. of ' horn-cattle:; ‘thot that vé 
been more efpecially prevalent, and have proved: 
have: ida under the names of gargil, ete ad nr din, 
oe SS 3 3nd extetnal fw Hings; i ) 2 
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and: icoiitagiod and add, that ** the murrain is the: diftem per 
now; andiof nimy late years, fo fatal among the horn-cattle.”” 
In 1757, Daniel Peter Layard, ‘M.D. FOR. S. publithed: æ 
particular account of the nature, caufes and cure of the diftem-. 
per then among the horn-cattle in Exg/and. ' He 'confiders it 
as an eruptive difeafe, in the feveral ftages, progrefs and effects. of 
ity exadly the, fame with. the finall~pox, and earneftly recom- 
mends inoculation. ' None of the external fwellings, eruptions: 
or: ‘contagion; characteriftic of thefe diforders, and. to which 
fwine and th 
oxen but feldom,— bulls are faid to be exempt from. it; alfo 
ficers is ees ides tree oen ofage.. Iti is : o diftale that. 
affects 
ép, as well as. neat cattle of all ages and kinds, are. 
incident, are peculiar to this diforder., “Tt is commonly called, 
the horn-diftemper :: Cows are more efpecially: fubject to- it 5 
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