276 Facts relative to the Diseases common to 



" The Goitre of the State of New- York is not con- 

 lined to the human kind. In that part of the Military 

 Tract which is called Manlius, I was assured that both 

 sheep and young calves are sometimes affected with 

 large swellings of their necks. A calf, which had been 

 weaned about three weeks, and suffered to run loose, af- 

 ter drinking the water of a certain stream, became greatly 

 affected with a swelling of the neck. The animal was 

 soon killed, so that it is not known how much farther the 

 disease might have proceeded. About three or four 

 miles to the east of Onondago, there is a brook, the 

 waters of which are said to occasion great swellings of 

 the necks of men, of women, and even of sheep. The 

 water of this brook is, certainly, highly impregnated 

 with lime-stone, to which the mischief is ascribed. In 

 this country, it is customary to turn out the sheep to 

 graze upon the Beech and Maple lands, that is, lands 

 whose principal large vegetables or timber are the beech*, 

 and different kinds of maplef . The sheep, being thus 

 set at liberty, have an opportunity of going to the brook 

 which I have mentioned, where great numbers of them, 

 i^is supposed from drinking the Avater, become afflict- 

 ed \\ ith large swellings of their necks. These swell- 

 ings have not, hitherto, been observed to be attended 

 with much inconvenience to the sheep, and it is wor- 

 thy of observation, that in the winter-season they sub- 

 side, or leave them. I was informed, that neither 

 iiorses nor cows have been observed to be affected witli 



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