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Article XVIII. 

 On the Rot in Sheep. 

 [By a Gentleman Fanner near GMonbury.] 

 Centlemev, 



HAVING examined many fheep infedled with 

 the difeafe in the liver called the rot, I beg 

 pcrmiilion to trouble you with a few remarks 

 thereon, and which are principally intended to 

 excite farther enquiry into the nature of this fatal 

 malady. 



That it is occafioned by the infects found in 

 the liver, and which are called flukes, is very 

 evident: but to account for their coming into the 

 liver is not fo eafy. 



I am of the opinion that they arc fwallowed 

 with the flieep's food while in the egg ftate. The 

 common, or moft obvious objection to that opinion 

 is, that this infedl is never found but in the liver, 

 or fome parts of the vifcera, of fheep that are 

 difeafed more or lefs* and that they muft there- 

 fore be bred there. 



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