HISTORY OF CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 
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those on the head and feet. There were no deaths reported 
from this disease, which attacked also horses, swine and 
sheep. 
1 756-59. Pox broke out among sheep in Saxony, fre¬ 
quently causing loss of eyes or lips. - 
1757. An epidemic raged among the horses in Esthland, 
Livland and Finnland, through which, in the Dorpatian dis¬ 
trict, 1,500 horses died in seven weeks only; cattle also 
caught it. It seems to have been the “Siberian Plague” 
(anthrax.) 
1761. An epidemic of anthrax (described by Reginer and 
called “ Lovwet or Lobet ” broke out in several cantons of 
Switzerland, causing great loss among the cattle and horses ; 
it crossed over into Austria and France, as did pox among 
sheep. 
In this year an epidemic arose among dogs which had 
never before been observed, as the physicians were not ac¬ 
quainted with it. In 1761 it appeared in Spain, where it con¬ 
tinued till 1763. In the latter year it appeared in England 
and from there carried to the Bolonais. 
Toward the end of this year it attacked the royal stud in 
Versailles and spread over the whole of France, raging till 
1765. 
In 1764 it extended into Bohemia and Franconia, and later 
into Italy. The dogs coughed, were tortured by intense 
heat, and swallowed with difficulty. In two days a pussy 
mass flowed from the mouth and nose; on the sixth day of 
the sickness very many died. The disease seems to have been 
“angina.” The French descriptions of this disease are much 
better and more complete than the German. (Desmar; 
Journal prac. de med. veter IV. p 610.) 
1762. A very fatal epidemic arose among horses in Den¬ 
mark and Sweden, which Heisinger thought influenza. The 
sheep-pox also arose in several parts of France, and anthrax 
in Switzerland, Lorraine, in the Valle Cominice, in Italy and 
Austria. 
I find the following statement: 
prom the middle of the seventeenth century to the be^ 
