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50.
But while the nature of the distemper was
such as to baffle all description, and its attacks almost too grievous for
human nature to endure, it was still in the following circumstance that its
difference from all ordinary disorders was most clearly shown.
All the birds and beasts that prey upon human bodies, either abstained from
touching them （though there were many lying unburied）, or
died after tasting them.
[2]
In proof of this, it was noticed that birds of this kind actually
disappeared; they were not about the bodies, or indeed to be seen at all.
But of course the effects which I have mentioned could best be studied in a
domestic animal like the dog.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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