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For at least a dozen years, 1745-1757, a murrain made such tragic inroads upon the cattle of England that the virtual extinction of entire herds was frequently recorded. Within the period of greatest mortality, at least half a million cattle perished from the disease or were killed by official
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9:3: "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain."
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In those years, acts of the Parliament of Great Britain were passed to "more effectually to prevent the spreading of distemper which now rages amongst the horned cattle in this kingdom".
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The word in Hebrew is דֶּבֶר "dever" (Strong's # 01698), derived from the primitive root "dabar" in the sense of "to destroy."
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of such a disease. There were major sheep- and cattle-murrains in Europe during the 14th century, which, combined with the
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The Statutes at Large: from the 23rd to the 26th Year of King George II
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Umbrella term for deadly disease, especially of livestock
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The Cattle Distemper in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England
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Index

Morraine
/ˈmʌrɪn/
cattle
sheep
Middle English
pestilence
morbidity
rinderpest
erysipelas
foot-and-mouth disease
anthrax
streptococcus
could also affect humans
epidemic
Little Ice Age
Great Famine of 1315–1317
Black Death
Bible
fifth plague
Exodus

Gustave Doré
illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours
Christian apologists
Psalms
Scotland
force-fire
Cumbria
England
Isle of Man

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