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furnifhed me with, for further and future enquiry, 
when I was not fatisfied. | 
Some preliminary obfervations—When a fheep 
dies, get a furgeon to open or difleét it; get him to 
make his remarks as he proceeds, you noting them 
down in a book provided for that purpofe: thus do 
for two or three fheep in every diforder; you will 
thereby acquire {kill enough to examine a dead car- 
cafe by yourfelf. ‘Then, by comparative anatomy; 
many probable conje€@tures may be formed as to the 
diforder, and as to the remedies to be applied, noting 
down the time, and every other circumftance, to- 
gether with the following effects. Thus, by little 
and little, an accumulation will be made of experi- 
mental knowledge of the diforders attending fheep, 
and of a number of ufeful remedies, either for pal- 
liating or curing various diforders. 
I know not of any exprefs treatife of the myology 
and ofteology of a {heep, hog, or ox, but only partial 
as feattered in various treatifes of anatomy; Grew, 
Couuins,the French academicians, Buasivus, VALEN- 
TINI, and perhaps others alfo; but there is a very 
good one of the horfe, by Srunss, as alfo bySnaPe. 
The rot, or confumption, is frequently the effect of 
acold, to which fheep are very liable who have 
thin coats, and lodge on wet lands; as appears by 
‘their frequent coughing.* How the flukes get into 
the liver, Ican no more account for than how 
en one wide ee es 
* See before. various’ 
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