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An Account of a Hook, intituled, Conghietture del 
Dottor Pietre Ancon. Michelotti, Filofofo, e 
Medico cT Arco, fopra la Natura, Cagione e 
Rimedi delT infermita regnanti ne’ Animali 
Bovini di molte Citta, <src, Nell" Autunno 
del" Anno cadente, 171 1. In Venezia, 1712. 
T H E Learned Author of this Difcourfe happen- 
ing to fpend fome time in the Country about 
the Month of October, in the Year 1711, took that 
opportunity of making a particular Enquiry into the 
circumftances of the Mortality, that then reign’d a- 
mong the Black Cattle in the Venetian Territories. 
The refult of which he gives in this relation, having 
been an Eye-Wittnefs to the greateft part of the Fatfts 
herein contain’d, and having receiv’d the reft upon 
the place from Perfons of Integrity and Credit. 
Almoft all the Tick Cattle refufed every fort of Food 
and Drink, they hung their Heads, had fhiverings 
in their Skin, and in their Limbs, they breach’d with 
difficulty, and their Expiration in particular was at- 
tended with a fort of rattling noife, they were fo 
feeble, that they could fcarcely go or ftand upon their 
Legs. Some few of them eat a little, and drank 
very much; others had Fluxes of Excrements vari- 
oufly colour’d of a very ofFenfive fmell, and fre- 
quently tinged with Blood ; Many of them had their 
Heads, and their Bellies fwell’d in fuch a manner, that, 
upon clapping them with the Hand on their Paun* 
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