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the following was found : a black mass of hay in the first 
stomach ; water-blisters on the surface of the intestines, which 
possessed a very fetid odor as soon as opened; and sores on 
the root of the tongue and water-blisters. Both the authors 
unite in the opinion that cauterizing and the seton were the 
best remedies. Several internal remedies were also recom¬ 
mended : camphor with gentian, tormentil, centanry, etc. 
The mouth of the animal was washed out with a mixture 
of salt and vinegar. Schroeck thus describes the disease : 
“ It is a well known fact that the disease is infectious. The 
spittle, which was scattered by the sick cows while pasturing, 
transmitted it to the rest. It is, doubtless, a malignant dysen¬ 
tery.” In 1712 this plague spread out from the Tyrol and 
Switzerland and through Germany to Thuringia and Saxony; 
from Franconia into the States of Newberg, Anspach, Ram- 
berg, Wurtzberg, Baden, on the Rhine, in the Palatinate, 
Alsace, Lorraine, France and Holland, in which country alone 
over two hundred thousand (200,000) head of cattle died. In 
Russia it spread out over Novgorod, Petersburg, Ingria, and 
Livland. In Italy the Piedmont was the only country not 
immediately attacked. It broke out there in 1714 with such 
violence that seventy thousand head of cattle perished. In 
the same year it appeared in England, also causing a loss of 
seventy thousand head. By Lancisis’ advice all the infected 
cattle were killed ; over six thousand cattle being destroyed 
in this manner in the counties of Middlesex, Essex, and Sur¬ 
rey alone. By this means the epidemic was stopped in three 
months. 
The English were, therefore, the first to make use of this 
method, which now is generally employed. In 1715 the epi¬ 
demic lessened somewhat. It yet existed in Holland, the 
northeastern part of Germany, several cantons of Switzer¬ 
land ; in Milan, Piedmont, Lucca, and in several districts of 
France. Inside of a few years it had entirely disappeared, 
except in the province of the Scone, where it raged violently 
as late as 1721-22. Isolated cases appeared later, especially 
in Hungaria, Prussia, Silesia’and Bavaria, without, however, 
spreading any. A new outbreak of the cattle plague oc¬ 
curred in 1724. 
