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Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the dreadfull [sic] contagious distemper seizing all the black cattle in the Venetian territories, and especially about Padua' by Bernardino Ramazzini

Reference number: CLP/15i/67

Date: May 1714

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An extract from Acta Eruditorum, March 1713. Ramazzini describes the spread of a plague in 1711 that affected cattle across Agro Vincentino, Padua and Milan, and spread into Italy.

Subject: Zoology / Veterinary medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An extract from the Acta Eruditorum for the Month of March, 1713. Pag. 111'

Read to the Royal Society on 13 May 1714

Reference number
CLP/15i/67
Earliest possible date
May 1714
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the dreadfull [sic] contagious distemper seizing all the black cattle in the Venetian territories, and especially about Padua' by Bernardino Ramazzini, May 1714, CLP/15i/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_67/paper-a-dissertation-concerning-the-dreadfull-sic-contagious-distemper-seizing-all-the-black-cattle-in-the-venetian-territories-and-especially-about-padua-by-bernardino-ramazzini, accessed on 08 March 2026

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