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Doctor Kern obferved an epidemic 
fcorbutic affection, which fhewed itfelf 
only among the women. (A. N. C. Cent, 
p. et 11 Obf. c. 159.) 
Cardinal Baronins makes mention in 
his Annals of an epizootic difeafe which 
reigned in Europe in the year 376, and 
which deftroyed almoh: all the herds of 
horned cattle. Fracaftorius likewife fpeaks 
of another in the year 1514, which only 
attacked horned cattle. From the hiftories 
of every age, it appears that horned cattle 
are more fubjedt to epidemics than any 
other kind. Horfes have alfo their epide¬ 
mics. Gregory, of Tours, fpeaks of one 
which committed great depredations in the 
Bourdelois in 581. (De Mirac. S. Mart, 
lib. iii.) 
Another ravaged the horfes in the army 
of Arnoul in Lorraine. (Ann. Fuld.) 
Lane ill recounts the hiftory of one which 
deftroyed the major part of the horfes in 
Italy 
