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meagre statement, and say that it was introduced into the 
province of Liege in 1714. 
England, as is well known, suffered from its presence for a 
comparatively short time, for owing to the prompt and sage 
measures suggested by Bates, and their intelligent adoption 
and enforcement by the government of the day, the country 
was relieved of the terrible pestilence very quickly. The 
measures recommended by Bates were almost, if not quite, 
identical with those proposed by Lancisi in 1713, but not at 
once, nor yet energetically carried out when the plague pre¬ 
vailed at Borne in that year ; and Mr. Fleming could not 
discover whether Bates had derived his knowledge of the 
only efficient method of suppressing the disease from Lancisi’s 
proposal, or whether he owed it to his own reasoning and 
common sense. M. Dele seems to incline to the belief that 
Bates was cognizant of Lancisi’s recommendations, which he 
borrowed for the occasion. At any rate, the conduct of the 
English in ridding themselves so thoroughly and quickly 
of the contagion appears to have elicited the admiration 
of other nations, and Paulet, sixty years afterwards, gave 
us the credit of being the first who had given such an 
example to the world. 
But it would appear from the researches of M. Dele and 
Dr. De Caisne, that measures like those of Lancisi and Bates 
were prescribed by Boyal Ordinance in Belgium in Septem¬ 
ber, 1714, certainly after Bates had made his suggestions, 
but these gentlemen do not appear to have discovered whether 
they were successfully carried out. It is much to be feared 
that they were not, for we find that the Ordinance prescribed 
certain remedies, curative and preservative, for the malady, 
which are certainly absurd, and which would be likely to 
detract from the observance of the only efficacious method 
of dealing with it. One of the receipts is, curiously enough, 
that which Bates speaks of as having been obtained from 
Holland to try in England, but was found quite impotent. 
M. Dele’s little pamphlet is a very valuable contribution 
to the history of the Cattle Plague during the period to which 
it refers, and throws additional light on the attempts made 
to combat with the pestilence during the first half of the 
eighteenth century. 
