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 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 May 1714