Live Stock. Sheep. Rot. Turn or Giddy. 



* by opening the vein below the canthus or inner angle of the eye, called the 

 angular vein, then, by holding the creature s head in an inverted pofition, to make 

 fomedrops of the blood fall into the eye,which operate two ways in effecting a cure 

 of the ophthalmia; firft by moderating theincreafed action of the veflels of that part, 

 which is the proximate caufe of the inflammation; and, fecondly,the blood being 

 admitted into the eye of the animal will act, by reafon of its mildnefs and its warmth, 

 as an emollient, which alfo contributes towards a cure. After this operation the 

 white fpeeks on the eye are removed, and the fight completely restored. For this 

 purpofe fome pound a little glafs, that is blown into the eye with a quill open at 

 both ends, which by its friction wears off thefe fpeeks or fcales.*&quot; 



A weak Solution of verdigris in diftilled vinegar has alfo been found ufeful 

 occasionally applied by a foft feather. And it is probable that white vitriol might 

 be ufed in the, fame way with advantage. 



The Rot is a difeafe with which fhecp are frequently affected on moift wet lands, 

 ft is an affection of the liver and lungs, attended wkh a dropfy, and hitherto incur 

 able. The chief thing to be depended upon in thefe cafes is that of changing the 

 iheep to a dry Situation, or keeping them warm and flickered, and giving them dry. 

 food in the yard+. On this Subject a curious fact or two are Stated in the Survey of 

 Lincolnshire. It is obferved that in rotting years &quot; the flieep that feed on the fait 

 Hiarmes, over which the fpring tides come, fell very high in confidence that they 

 are fafe.&quot; And it is added, &quot; that a Shepherd,, who, when young, was Shepherd s boy 

 to an old man who lived at Netlam, near Lincoln, a place famous for the rot, told 

 Mr. Neve, that he was perfuaded Sheep took the rot only of a morning before the 

 dew was well off: at that time they folded, being open field. His matter s Shepherd 

 kept his flock in fold always till the dew was gone; and with no other attention his 

 iheep were kept found, when all the neighbours loft their flocks J.&quot; 



The Turn or Giddy is a diforder with which thefe animals are often feized. This- 

 is probably a fpecies of hydrocephalus,or an encyfted collection of water in the head 

 betwixt the dura and the pia mater, which in thefe creatures is always accompanied 

 with a vertigo^ or continual turning about. In LincolnShire,where it is termed &quot;fturdy 

 or bladder on the brain, there is an old fellow, near North Somercots, who trepans- 



* Perthfhirc Corredled Report. f Report of Yorkshire. 



J Much light has been lately thrown on the nature of this difeafe by Dr. Harrifon in his * Inquiry. 



into the Rpt. in Sheep and other Animals*&quot; 

 VOL. ii, 4,X 



