VAUIOLA OVINA; 



OR, 



SMALL-POX IN SHEEP. 



CHAPTER L 



Opinions of British Authors on Siieep-pox — An- 

 TiENT Writers on Diseases of Cattle — Epizootic 

 Affections, including Sheep-pox — General His- 

 tory of these Maladies — Visitation of them in 

 England— THEIR supposed Causes. 



The outbreak of a disease in any locality where it 

 had hitherto been unobserved or unknown, except by 

 name, cannot fail, whether man or animals be its vic- 

 tims, to excite the attention of the public ; but more 

 especially must it receive attention from those persoihs 

 whose avocation requires that they should investigate 

 the causes which have led to its appearance, and make 

 themselves conversant with its nature or charactej-, 

 and with the laws which govern its extension among 

 that class of animals which seems most susceptible of its 

 influence. 



No surprise need, therefore, be felt at the interest 

 which has been awakened by the appearance in this 

 country of a disease attacking sheep, and having a 

 strong resemblance to, if not identity with, that loath- 

 some malady, the Small-Pox. This ovine disorder 

 now bids fair to estabhsh itself in England, and pro- 



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