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Considerations sur & Epizootic Bovine (Typhus Contagieux 
Epizootique ) qui a sevi en Europe de 1709 a 1714. Par 
M. E. Dele, Medecin Veterinaire du Gouvernement, 
Membre titulaire de la Societe de Medecine d’Anvers. 
Anvers, 1871. 
Considerations on the Bovine Epizooty {Epizootic Contagious 
Typhus ) ivhich prevailed in Europe from 1709 to 1714. 
The little brochure bearing the above title is the substance 
of a communication recently made to the Antwerp Medical 
Society by M. Dele, one of its Members, and the Govern¬ 
ment Veterinary Surgeon in that city. An ordinance, issued 
by Maximilian-Emmanuel, of Bavaria, in 1814, relative to 
the Cattle Plague then devastating Europe, and which had 
been brought to the notice of the Society not long ago by its 
President, Dr. De Caisne, together with a careful study of 
our colleague Mr. Fleming’s recent work on f Animal 
Plagues,’ appear to have incited the author, who is well 
known on the Continent as an accomplished veterinarian 
and earnest inquirer, to make further researches into the 
history of the malady during the above-mentioned period, 
and more particularly as to its presence in the Low Countries. 
Hitherto, the materials for completing this history, espe¬ 
cially for some of the Continental kingdoms, have not been 
accessible to the medical historian, so that doubts have 
existed as to the extent to which some countries were affected 
by the bovine scourge, and as'to the measures they adopted 
to retard its progress or stifle it in its devastating course. 
Belgium was one of the countries that suffered so severely at 
that time, and until the publication of this essay the records 
of the visitation of the epizooty there were meagre in the 
extreme. Even the Belgian Minister of the Interior, refer¬ 
ring in 1865 to the previous irruptions of the disease, stated 
that there was no precise information as to the losses sus¬ 
tained by that country, and that those of 1768 and 1786 
were the only ones against which efficacious sanitary measures 
were employed; and Professor Wehenkel, of the Brussels 
Veterinary School, in an interesting notice of the disease 
published in the Annates de Med. Veterinaire for 1865, says 
that At spread everywhere because its contagiousness was 
unknown, and no barrier was opposed to it. 
When so little was discovered as to the history of the malady 
in Belgium, it can scarcely be wondered at that Mr. Fleming, 
in his work just referred to, should have to follow Kanold’s 
