fo ye] 
paralytick ftroke, affecting the fpinal marrow; but 
whether I am right or wrong in my conjecture, time 
may difcover. 
The red-water, or the dropfy; as the animal fwells, 
the blood almoft ferum, watery bladders in different 
parts, chiefly in the fore-part of the animal’s body, 
and the fkin when ftript off has red fpots in various 
parts, and of various fizes. My conjeéture is that the 
wool, ufually called frothy, is owing to this diforder ; 
a want of yoke, drynefs, harfbne/s, thin and weak 
ftaple, foon becomes dead, little or no proof; on 
breaking it cries out, and much dutft flies off. All 
thefe fymptons are to be found in wool, where the 
fheep are fed conftantly ona very light, fandy, arable 
foil, as Urchinfield, Herefordfhire. 
The /fone is notacommon diforder—I have never 
heard but of one inftance of it, viz. a two-toothed ewe 
belonging to Mr. T. ErHEREDGE, yeoman, Brough- 
ton, Hants. It pined awayand died—on opening it, in 
the bladder was found a calculus, the fize of a mid- 
dling marble, loofe, round, with fhort fpines, coated 
externally white as chalk; internally, or rather under 
the external coat, rather dark. It is in my cuftody. 
The fly, or maggot ; if this happen before fhear- 
ing, the fheep fs indifpofed, and does not yield a pro- 
per quantity of yoke, and thus it becomes a proper 
nidus for the fly to fpit its eggs in, which are foon 
hatched by the heat of the body. The maggots 
immediately feed on the flefh of the fheep; bur, if 
they 
