Excerpt from A Manual of Veterinary Sanitary Science and Police, Vol. 1 of 2: Embracing the Nature, Causes, Symptoms, Etc;, And the Prevention, Suppression, Therapeutic Treatment, and Relations to the Public Health of the Epizootic and Contagious Diseases of the Domesticated Animals; With a Scheme for a Veterinary Sanitary Organiza

The history of this interesting outbreak will be found in Animal Plagues (p.

In 1714, the same disease was imported into England, where it was localized in and around London; Information must have reached the authorities of its prevalence on the Continent, for they immediately appointed Dr. Bates, physician to George I., to investigate its contagiousness and suggest means for its sup pression. By slaughtering the infected and suspected animals, disinfection, and other wise measures, the maladywas stifled with such promptitude as to elicit the admiration of those countries in which it had been prevailing for some years. This was, in reality, the first occasion on which administrative measures had been adopted for the prevention of contagious animal diseases in England - forthough an Old ordinance had been in existence with regard to Mange in horses, since the reign of henryviii., yet it may have been a dead letter, so far as its application was concerned. In France, the first public arrét with respect to these maladies is dated April 10, 1714 but that country soon perfected a code of Veterinary Sanitary Police, which was remarkably complete, and, with the additions made from time to time, has proved of the grandest service. Under the great minister, Bertin, the excellent National Veterinary Schools were founded for the promotion of Veterinary Science; and Turgot, his successor, seeing the ravages inflicted by the Cattle-plague in 1774, instituted a commission of medical men to investigate the spreading diseases of animals and mankind. This commission ultimately became the Société Royal d'e Chirurgie. In some other countries similar efforts were made but in England, in 1745, when the bovine scourge again ap peared, the lesson inculcated by Lancisi and applied by Bates appears to have been entirely ignored, as it was again in 1865, and the disease prevailed for several years.

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