TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Page 



Small-pox of sheep, a new disease in England — Opinions of 

 British authors on Ovine Variola — Antient writers on the dis- 

 eases of cattle — General history of epizootic affections — Out- 

 breaks of various malignant disorders among cattle and sheep 

 — England visited by some of these scourges. Their supposed 

 causes 1-16 



CHAPTER II. 



Appearance of sheep-pox at Datchett — History of its introduc- 

 tion — Its outbreak at Kingsland and Pinner — Experiment of 

 exposing a sheep to the contagion — Inoculations with the ovine 

 virus — Remarks on the experiments 17-35 



CHAPTER III. 



Ovination of a sheep — Observations on the causes of its failure — 

 Ovine variola produced by contagion — Infected sheep sold in 

 Smithfiold — Communication and interview with the Board of 

 Trade — Government measures — Preventive means advocated 

 by the Reviewer of the cattle trade — Observations on quaran- 

 tine, &c. — Plan for regulating the admission of foreign sheep — 

 Letter of Captain Stanley Carr — Seizure of variolous sheep — 

 Police reports — Exposure of a heifer to sheep-pox — Letters 

 from Messrs. Statham and Stroud on the subject 36-59 



CHAPTER IV. 



Nature and origin of variola ovina — Its epizootic character — Dis- 

 ease produced by infection in various flocks — Mr, Fielder's 

 description of the malady — Experiments to test its infectious 



