80 Oil the Diseases of Sheep ^ ^d. 



these cases ; which is generally mortal, principally 

 from their being generally wrong treated. On the^r^^ 

 appearance of the hooping cough amongst the human 

 species, an inflammatory sore throat was epidemic among 

 the horses throughout this country ; attended with loss 

 of appetite, fever, inflammation of the Tonsils, and sup- 

 puration and very severe cough. I found that bleeding 

 andpu7gi?ig was the remedy indicated in the beginning 

 of the disease, or at any time before the suppuration of 

 the tumors* But after suppuration^ peruvian bark^ steely 

 assafostida and tar, were useful ; and bleeding, &c. in- 

 jurious. This disease has been generally called the 

 throat distemper, 



" I never was more forcibly struck with the simi- 

 larity of the diseases of the human and brute creation, 

 than last winter ; of which the following is a history ; 

 from my note book." 



" January 12th, visited six patients. — Disease 

 pneumonia — pulse tense and quick ; — remedies — 

 bleeding — cathartics, and blisters to breast : — called 

 on a visit to Mr. W. B. Montgomery. — Several of his 

 Sheep have died of disease. Upon dissection, I find 

 considerable inflammation of the membrane lining the 

 Thorax; an eflfa sion of water around the lungs; in 

 one of them the lungs do not appear to be inflamed. 

 In several others the lungs are inflamed ; and upon 

 cutting into the substance of the lungs, the cells ap- 

 pear full of a frothy liquid. The rest of the body ap- 

 pears healthy ; as also the brain. Examined several 

 alive : Symptoms ; — cough, — the falling of both ears 

 backwards, — vertigo ; — so that in attempting to walk, 

 they stagger. — Prescribed bleeding and purges of mo- 



