among the horned Cattle. 543 
that province were feized with the contagious diftemper, 
and not one out-lived it. Monf. faulet, in his Re~ 
cherches fur les Maladies Epizootiques , vol. II. p. 25, 26. 
Paris 1776, has fufficiently exploded Mr. needham’s 
opinion. 
M. bergius had infifted, that the contagion was not 
of the exanthematous fort, and therefore inoculation 
mult be of no ufe; but this opinion was alfo fully re- 
futed by the late Profeffor erxleben of Gottingen, in 
his learned oration on the 20 of October, 1770. 
From every information, domeftic or foreign, and 
comparing the feveraf opinions, experience and obferva- 
tion plainly and completely determine the difpute. The 
difeafe among the horned cattle, fo fatal in many coun- 
tries, is not endemial or natural to Europe, although it 
is become fo in Denmark, from fpreading all over the 
Danifh dominions, and its long continuance in that 
kingdom. It is an eruptive fever of the variolous kind ' 
and notwithft anding the exanthemata, or puftules, may 
have been frequently overlooked, yet none ever recovered 
without more or lefs eruption or critical abfceffes ; but 
thefe differ from the peftilential fort ; no otherway s fimi- 
(b) In a letter from Monf. vicq^d’azyr to Dr. layard, dated Paris, 
Augull 28, 1780, is the following declaration: cc II me paroit comine a vous 
Ci que e’eft toujours la meme maladie qui a regne depuis 17115 et qu’elle a 
* € dc grands rapports avec I’eruption varioleufe.’- 
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