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G Theves

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PubMed2000

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PubMed1999

[Animal nutrition in the dietetics of the 18th Century with "Materiae Medicae" by H.J.N. Crantz as an example].

H.J.N. Crantz (1722-1797), a physician and botanist born in the Duchy of Luxembourg and practising in Vienna under the Empress Maria Theresia during the 18th century, deals in his "materiae medicae et chirurgicae", written in Latin language, also with animal foodstuff. Animals from various species are commented on the utility of their meat and products to maintain health or to recover it after illness. The items of the text are described in free translation and in summary. Some more explanations are added.

Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena↗
PubMed1997

[Anthrax: a malady of animals and of man which hides in the earth].

Anthrax is an infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, but also of horses, of pigs, of dogs, of wild animals and of humans. Bacillus anthracis causes the disease. This bacterium needs plenty of oxygen to procreate and to produce resistant spores, which remains viable in the soil during 3.5 years, at times during 15-20 years. The author tries to follow step by step the evolution of the ideas concerning the origin and the pathology as well as of the veterinarians measures against this disease during the 19th and 20th centuries. Many studies of the endemic anthrax were made from the beginning of the second half of the 19th century. Thanks to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) in France and Robert Koch (1843-1910) in Germany, the anthrax could be identified with a soil-disease between 1870 and 1880. The statistics concerning the anthrax in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg compared to the geological and pedological structures of the soil, have fully confirmed the scientific findings at the end of the 19th century. Nowadays the anthrax has disappeared from our landscape thanks to the preventive inoculation and to the industrial use of the animal cadavers.

Animal Diseases↗
PubMed1997

[Smallpox: an historical review].

The first protection against smallpox, a disease known already in old China and India, consisted in rubbing infectious material from smallpox patients into the scratched skin of children. Lady Montagu brought this method from Turkey to England in 1721. This "variolation", however dangerous, was adopted in Europe during the eighteenth century mainly by the aristocracy. But it was Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who in 1796 used cowpox to protect against smallpox without the risk of acquiring the disease. During more than 60 years the "vaccination" was carried out from "arm to arm" with a certain risk of transmission of syphilis. From 1864 on the vaccine was mainly produced on cows to avoid this risk. The WHO managed in 1978 to eliminate smallpox from the planet by vaccination. The smallpox outbreaks, the inoculation, the vaccination and the production of cowpox vaccine in Luxembourg are described.

Animals↗