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disease, 69; causes assigned by Mas- 

 call, jMavkbam, Crawshey, 71 ; Bradley 

 and Ellis, 72; Bakewell's practice of 

 rotting sheep, 73 ; his motive, ib. ; Dr. 

 Harrison's review of the imputed 

 causes of rot, 74 ; theories of Hogg, 

 Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Fairbairn, 75 ; 

 Price, Davy, 76 ; Hamont and Fisclier, 

 77 ; opinion of tlic Arabs, ih. ; attri- 

 buted by King to the swallowing of 

 ova on pastures, 78; disproof of the 

 theorj-, 79 ; Gerlach's experiments, ih. ; 

 Youatt's opinion, ib. ; miasmata re- 

 garded as the cause of rot, 80; Dr. 

 Pearson on the marshes of Kent, 81 ; 

 tlanger of eating " coathed " pasture 

 bare, 82 ; Mr. A. Blaeklock's tubercle 

 theory, 83 ; Mr. S])Ooner"s opinion, ib. ; 

 the Pilaria broneliialis, ih. ; liability to 

 rot confined to certain seasons, ib. ; 

 occurrence of rot on the Duke of Port- 

 land's water-meadow, 84 ; analogous 

 case reported in the ' Scotch Journal of 

 Agriculture,' ih. ; vital force, 88 ; rot an 

 entozoic disease, ih. ; refutation of Mr. 

 Blaeklock's theory, 81) ; effects pro- 

 duced by tlie filavia broiichialis, 90 ; 

 not attended with inflammation of the 

 liver, z6. ; but with marked deljihty, 91 ; 

 flukes in hares and rabbits, ih. ; influ- 

 ence of food, ib. ; dropsy, 92 ; Sir A. 

 Fitzhcrbert's description of flukes, ih. ; 

 filarise in the digestive stomacli of 

 sheep, 93 ; instance of immature flukes 

 in the livers of young lambs, ih. ; dia- 

 grams of distomata or flidies, 94 ; their 

 effect on the liver, ib. ; their anatomy 

 and natural history, 95 ; Siebold on the 

 Cyticereus faseiolaris, and the cause of 

 gid, ih. ; metamorphoses of entozoa, 9.5 ; 

 the Distoma hepaticum or Fasciola lie- 

 patica, the liver fluke, ih. ; trematodo 

 worms, ih. ; Rudolfi's classification, 97 ; 

 diagram and description of the Distoma 

 hepaticum, ih. ; magnified view of ditto, 

 and colom- of the entozoon, 98 ; external 

 surface, 99 ; muscular and aquiferous 

 systems, ih. ; magnified view of tlic ven- 

 tral sucker, 100 ; digestive system, 101 ; 

 magnified view, 102 ; oral sucker and 

 cesophagean sphincter, 103 ; generative 

 organs, 104 ; magnified view, 105 ; 

 uterus, lOG ; male organs, ih. ; genera- 

 tive aj)pendage, 108 ; nervous system, 

 109 ; natm-ai history of D. hepaticum, 

 110; long duration of the vital prin- 

 ciple of the ova. 111; Kiichenmeister 

 on ascarides, 112 ; change of the em- 

 bryo of the D. hepaticum into a cer- 

 caria-sac, 114; Steenstrup's theory of 

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sacs, with illustration, 115 ; develop- 

 ment of cercariaj, ih. ; figiu'e of 0. 

 ephemera, 116; ditto, encysted, 117; 

 transfonnation of cercaiiic into disto- 

 mata, 118; special liability of rumi- 

 nants to rot, ih. ; flukes in tlie horse; 

 and ass, 119 ; large animals less injured 

 by tlu'ra tliaa small ones (Dr. Budd), 

 ih. ; flukes in man, ih. ; cause of the sus- 

 ceptibility of sheep, 120 ; recorded in- 

 stances of quick contamination, 121 ; 

 period of greatest danger, 123 ; symp- 

 toms of tlie disease, 126 ; the latent 

 stage, ib. ; the liver and its functions, 

 ih.; bile, 128; explanation of the cause 

 wliy animals gain fat in the early stage 

 of rot, 129 ; later symptoms, ib. ; apjjear- 

 ance of the eye, 130 ; thirst and fitful 

 appetite, ib. ; constituents of blood, 

 131; diarrhoea, i7(. ; progress and dura- 

 tion of rot, 132 ; utility of blood-mtddng 

 food, ib. ; influence of i^arasites on 

 health, 134 ; post-mortem appearances 

 135 ; the liver, 136 ; flukes in the biliary 

 ducts, 137 ; hardness of tlie ova shells, 

 138 ; death of sheep from passive con- 

 gestion of the lungs, 139; treatment, 

 140 ; exploded remedies, 141 ; alleged 

 efiScaey of burnet, ib. ; Sir G. S. Mac- 

 kenzie on the use of merciuy, 142 ; 

 Y'oaatt's recipe, ib. ; Clater's, 143 ; 

 value of salt, ib. ; practice of tlio 

 Bedouin Ai-abs, 144 ; mercurial inunc- 

 tion reprobated, ib. ; management and 

 treatment of aflected animals, 145; food 

 and shelter, ib. ; use of salt, 146 ; sul- 

 phate of iron, ib. ; recipe for medicated 

 food, ib.; anthelmintic draught, 147; 

 report on the employment of a French 

 remedy, ib. ; prevention of the disease, 

 150 ; Leonard Mascall's advice, ib. ; 

 G. Markham's recommendation, 152 ; 

 salt-marshes, 153 ; utility of change of 

 l)asture not permanent in affected ani- 

 mals, ih. ; sahno and saccharine mix- 

 ture for sheep in wet weather, 154 ; 

 importance of dry situations and drain- 

 age, 155 ; remedy for destroying imma- 

 ture forms of the fluke in the animal 

 body, 157 ; mode of feeding, ib. ; ex- 

 cessive doses of salt injurious, 158 ; 

 plan for destro}'ing cercarioe on pas- 

 tures, 159 ; i5ractical recommendations, 

 ib. 

 SiiEEP-1'T.EDiNG, the breeding and feed- 

 ing of (Prof. Coleman), L. D. xxiv. 

 623 ; economical considerations, ib. ; 

 statistics, 624 ; relation of grass to 

 arable land, ib. ; management of pas- 

 ture - land, 624 ; sheep in relation 

 to corn-crops, 625 ; ^economical ^feed- 



