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ficulty of breathing, great pantings with a fort of fnorting, 
and at th» beginning a kind of Stupor and Drowzinefs, a con- 
tinual Flux of a ftrong fmelling Matter from the Nofe and 
Mouth, a very fetid Dung, fometimes frith Blood, all Rumi- 
nation ceafing, Puftules breaking out over the whole Body on 
the 5th or 6th day, like the Small- Pox ; they all generally dy’d 
about the 5th or 7th day, very few of them efcaping. 
The Author deducesthis Diftemper from a contagious Ori- 
ginal. He tells us, it is certain, that out of a great Drove, 
fuch as the Merchants bring yearly into Italy out of Dalmatia, 
and the bordering Countries, one Beaft happen’d to (haggle 
from the reft, and be left behind ; which a Cowherd finding, 
brought to a Farm belonging to the Uluffrious and Reverend 
Count Borromeo , Canon of Padua : This Beaft infe&ed all the 
Cows and Oxen of the Place where he was taken in, with the 
fame Diftemper he labour’d under; the Beaft it fell dying in 
a few days, as did all the reft, except one only, who had a 
Rowel put into his Neck. 
’Tis no ftrange thing therefore, if from the Effluvia , like an 
Atmofphere, proceeding from the fick Cattle, from thofe dead,, 
and from the Cowhoules and Paftures where they were fed, 
and by that means infe&ed, and chiefly from the Cloaths of 
the Cowherds themfelves, this Infe&ion falling upon a proper 
Subjedt, fhould diffufe it felf fo largely. When therefore this 
fubtile venomous Exhalation happens to meet with any of the 
Cow kind, joining it felf with the ferous Juices and Animal 
Spirits, whilft it is carry’d all over the Body, diforders the 
natural confiftence of the Blood, and corrupts the Ferments of 
the Fifcerai whence it naturally follows, that the natural 
Fun&ions of the Vifcera, are vitiated, and the requifite Se- 
cretions ftop’d. For 
Dr. Ramazzini not only fuppofes,but aflerts,that this Poifbn 
is of that kind which rather fixes and coagulates, than diffolves 
the Blood: For befidesthe forementioned Symptoms accom- 
panying the Difeafe, the Eye it felf is a Witnefe; fince the 
dead Carcafes being open’d while they are yet hot, little or no 
Blood 
