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cattle, cows with calf, and young fucking or yearling 
calves ; and of the furviving hxteen, only two calves 
out of feventy-feven lived, and thefe two, with feven 
other beafts of the lixteen, efcaped the infection, tho* 
conftantly among the difeafed : fo that it is plain. 
Of 192 beafts, - - 1 76 died 
, 7 recovered 
9 efcaped the infe&ion. 
192 
The mortality was as confiderable in thefe king- 
doms. 
Whoever will compare the appearances, progrefs, 
and fatality, of the fmall-pox, with what is remarked 
by authors of authority, as Rammazzini and Lancifi, 
and other. obfervers, relative to the contagious dis- 
temper among the horned cattle, will not be at a 
lofs one moment to determine, whether this difeafe 
be an eruptive fever, like unto the fmall-pox, or not. 
Now if, as the Marquis has granted in both his 
memoirs (5), it be a general obfervation, that an 
eruption of puftules on fome parts of the body, re- 
gularly thrown out, digefled, and dried, is the means 
ufed by nature to effedt the cure ; and that in general 
the morbid matter does not affedt the parotid, ingui- 
nal, or other glands, nor produce large carbuncles 
and abfcefles, as the plague does : Nay more, iince it 
is obferved by the Marquis, that the difference be- 
tween the contagious diffemper of 1745 and 1746, 
and of 1747 and 1748, was, that in the former the 
(5) Pag. 143. and 338. 
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falutary* 
