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some noxious exhalations emitted from the earth in three distinct 
earthquakes that had been felt in the space of one year. 
The method of cure was this :—Upon the least suspicion of con¬ 
tagion, the tongue of the animal was carefully examined. If 
they found any aphthse or blisters, of whatever colour they were, 
they rubbed and scratched the tongue until it bled ; then they 
wiped away the blood and corruption with new unwashed linen. 
This done, a lotion of salt and good vinegar was used for the 
tongue. The antidote or medicine for the diseased cattle was 
equal parts of soot, gunpowder, brimstone, and salt, a large spoon¬ 
ful being a dose, and that washed down with common water. 
Dr. Slare was assured by two travellers, that this contagion 
reached the borders of Poland, having passed quite through 
Germany—that it was observed to advance daily, spreading 
near two German miles in twenty-four hours—that it, at the 
same time, infected places at great distances, and that cattle 
secured at rack and manger were equally infected with those in 
the field. 
The murrain raged dreadfully in England at this time. 
The Universal Magazine, 1747. 
Exophthalmia and Cataract in Fish. 
In the garden of the Alfort school is a reservoir and a pond, 
into which, about two years ago, some Chinese golden fish were 
placed. Those in the pond seemed to prosper well, and were 
free from disease; but those in the reservoir, the bottom of which 
is of a dark colour, and into which the rays of the sun never pene¬ 
trated, were attacked in the first year with a disease which de¬ 
stroyed five or six of them, resembling, at the same time, both 
hydrophthalmia and exophthalmia (dropsy and protrusion of the 
eye), but approaching most to the last, since the eyes were 
almost entirely pushed from their sockets. During the second 
year, eight or ten were affected in the same manner, and during 
the months of January, February, and March, of the present 
year (1816), more than a dozen died. 
Another disease also began to shew itself in this year, namely, 
cataract, sometimes in one eye, and at other times in both. 
When they were attacked with exophthalmia, the eyes assumed 
the appearance of two straight horns, rounded at their extre¬ 
mities, protruding from the cavity of the orbit. In some fish 
they were both equally prominent, in others one projected much 
more than the other. There were some in which the eye did not 
appear to be otherwise diseased ; but in most the cornea was 
covered with red spots of a greater or less size. In some the 
