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mated at 3,000,000. Other epizootic diseases of domestic 
animals occurred besides the cattle-plague. In 1712 an epi¬ 
demic broke out among the horses around Augsburg, which 
later attacked also cattle, swine, geese, turkeys and deer, and 
which seems to have been anthrax according to the descrip¬ 
tion of Schroeck. Another very fatal epidemic broke out at 
about the same time in Russia, Lithuania, Podolia, Volchynia, 
Moldau, Wallachia, Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, in fact 
throughout Germany, in Belgia and in the north of France. 
It moderated only when winter arrived. It raged espec¬ 
ially among the horses of the army, so that sometimes some 
companies had hardly twelve horses fit for duty. It was 
noticed even in Italy, in Naples and Rome, and was called 
“an epidemic horse fever,*’ by the Italian physicians. 
Lancisius has also left us a description of this disease. “ It 
had both an acute and chronic form.” I11 the acute form a 
severe chill attacked the animal; it lost its appetite ; the ac¬ 
tivity of the skin ceased, causing cramps and an inflamed con¬ 
dition of the intestines and of the kidneys. Death occurred 
in forty-eight hours. On making an autopsy the intestines, 
stomach and diaphragm were found to be inflamed. In the 
chronic form the animal lost its appetite and hung its head ; 
the throat was swollen, breathing became labored, and a sort 
of rattling was heard in the throat; the animal became very 
uneasy. If the hair lost its lustre and smoothness, if the urine 
did not pass, and cramps followed by cold sweats occurred, 
the animal generally died. 
If, on the contrary, a tenacious slime flowed from mouth 
and nose, if a bad-smelling urine passed off, and if the limbs 
swelled up, the animal recovered. Heisinger is inclined to 
identify this disease with our influenza. In 1714 an epizootic 
arose among the sheep. In the kingdom of Naples over 
50,000 sheep and lambs perished. The same mortality among 
sheep and goats was further observed in Poland, Prussia, Si¬ 
lesia, Saxony, Franconia, Bavaria, Swabia, Austria, Hungaria, 
France and Holland. 
The disease was probably the cattle-plague, the occurrence 
of which, among sheep, is pretty well proven. Kanold gives 
the following description of this disease; 
