Mémoire sur la péripneumonie chronique ou phthisie pulmonaire qui affecte les vaches laitières de Paris et des environs, avec les moyens curatifs et préservatifs de cette maladie, et des observations sur l'usage du lait et de la viande des vaches malades ; nouvelle édition imprimée par arrêtés de la Société d'agriculture et de l'administration centrale du département de la Seine

New edition.

Contemporary full mottled tan calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt garlands and floral tools, black morocco lettering-piece, blind-tooled rolls to the spine ends, boards framed with a gilt fillet and palmette border, marbled endpapers, gilt fillets to the edges partly rubbed, marbled edges, one lower corner bumped, contemporary Restoration-period binding, 88 pp.

The first edition had been published in 1794; this reissue attests to the persistence of the epizootic outbreak in the Île-de-France region.

This work has been bound together with ten additional texts relating to epizootic diseases in the early nineteenth century:

I. CHABERT (Philibert): Instruction on gangrenous contagious pleuropneumonia, which usually prevails in spring among horned cattle; published by order of the government. [Paris], Imprimerie de la Feuille du cultivateur, Year V (1797), 20 pp.

II. [HUZARD and DESPLAS:] Instruction on inflammatory epizootic diseases, and particularly on that affecting horned cattle in the eastern departments, part of Germany, and the supply parks of the Armies of Sambre-et-Meuse and Rhine-et-Moselle; published by the government. Paris, Imprimerie de la Feuille du cultivateur, n.d. [1797], 24 pp.

III. CHAVASSIEU D'AUBEBERT: On Epizootic Exanthems, and particularly on sheep pox and vaccination compared with human smallpox. Fragment of a Treatise on Comparative Medicine (...). Paris, Madame Huzard, Year XII (1804), 36 pp.

IV. GOHIER (Jean-Baptiste): Memoir on an epizootic outbreak which appeared in Germinal, Year VIII, among the horses of the depot of the 20th Chasseurs Regiment stationed at Metz; followed by an account of that which prevailed in Thermidor, Year II, among the horned cattle of the commune of Tramois, department of Ain. Lyon, author, Reymann, Year XII - 1804, 36 pp. Mennessier de La Lance I, 561.

V. GOHIER: Memoir on the epizootic disease currently prevailing (1814) among horned cattle in the department of Rhône and elsewhere. Lyon, Lions, Paris, Madame Huzard, 1814, 62 pp., one unnumbered table leaf.

VI. GUERSENT (Louis-Benoît): Essay on Epizootics. Paris, C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Madame Huzard, 1815, 2 unnumbered leaves, iv-120 pp.

VII. GIRARD (Jean): Memoir on Sheep Pox and the Advantages of Inoculation; second edition, revised and enlarged. Paris, Madame Huzard, 1818, 63 pp.

VIII. LEBLANC (Urbain): On Epizootic Gastroenteritis, a Prevailing Disease of Horses; its Description and Treatment. Paris, author, Roux, Delaunay, Ponthieu, 25 May 1825, viii pp., pp. 9-46. Mennessier de La Lance II, 70.

IX. GIRARD (Jean): Notice on the Disease Prevailing Epizootically among Horses. Second edition, revised. May 1825. Paris, Béchet jeune, n.d. [1825], 36 pp. Mennessier de La Lance I, 554. The first edition had appeared in April of the same year. The epizootic, originating in Rouen and spreading throughout France from April 1825 onward, appears to have been a form of anthrax fever. Associated with Chabert as deputy director of the Veterinary School of Alfort, Jean Girard (1770-1852) succeeded him as director in 1814.

X. RAINARD (Joseph): Memoir on the Epizootic Disease of Horses Which Has Prevailed and Continues to Prevail in France and Various Other Countries of Europe. Lyon, Imprimerie de J.-M. Barbet, 1825, 44 pp. Mennessier de La Lance II, 373. The sole edition of this memoir, read on 3 June 1825 at a meeting of the Agricultural Society of Lyon. Joseph Rainard (1778-1854) was professor at the Veterinary School of Lyon, which he directed from 1848 onwards. The epizootic discussed here chiefly affected the Rhône region and neighbouring departments.

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