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lasses and yeast. January 16th, called to see Mr. 

 Montgomery's Sheep. Several had recovered^ that 

 had been bled and purged the first day of the disease. 



*' The similarity of the diseases is evident ; and Mr. 

 Montgomery asserts, that bleeding alone saved one or 

 two valuable half blooded Merino sheep in this disease. 

 The blood was taken by opening a vein near the arti- 

 culation of the lower jaw. Mr. M. had at the time 

 about 300 sheep ; of which he lost about thirty by this 

 inflammatory Disease; and chiefly the fattest of 

 the flock." 



I copy no more of the letter ; because it concludes 

 with an apology to Dr. Rush^ for the trouble given to 

 him by the writer. The society have had the most sa- 

 tisfactory proof, in the excellent lecture delivered by 

 Dr. Riish^ and printed in our first volume, that he re- 

 quires no apology ; but takes an interest in all such 

 communications of information : — I mention, with not 

 the most distant idea of reproach, but with serious and 

 sincere regret, that, until this communication, we 

 have had no instance of the good effect produced on 

 medical men, by the important example set in that lec- 

 ture. So that our domestic animals are either, from 

 necessity, placed in the hands of ignorant and fraudu- 

 lent quacks, and low pretenders to veterinary know- 

 ledge, or abandoned to their fate. The latter is, in 

 most cases, the safest alternative. 



R. Peters. 



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