CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 301 



A FATAL LOCAL DISEASE.— A fatal disease, whicli is no doubt local 

 iu its character, is described as follows by Mr. L. F. Diipron, living 



near Savannah, Ga. : 



A disease is prevailing here among sheep which seems to be peculiar to animals 

 feedin<r on the seaboard. The principal symptom is a swelling on the under jaw. 

 The swelling contains a hot, watery fluid ; if opened and the fluid discharged it will 

 soon fill again with increased heat over the afl-ected part. Diarrhea sets in, which is 

 soou followed by death." Sheep over three years old frequently die before diarrhea 

 occurs. The disease is most fatal to lambs, though I have known but two recoveries 

 out of hundreds of animals attacked. Sheep grazed in woods pastures seem as liable 

 to the disease as those grazed in the salt marshes. 



