128 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. 



Our readers, of course, will readily understand that in regard 

 to the disorders of sheep, as well as, indeed, to those of all kinds 

 of animals, and even human beings also, there must always be 

 very great difficulty in laying down hard and fast rules of treat- 

 ment. In some instances a particular remedy may seem to be 

 attended with marvellous results, and yet in another apparently 

 similar case, when pursuing the same method of treatment, we 

 may ignominiously fail. The inference to be drawn from this is 

 that very great experience and judgment, combined with ex- 

 treme care and wide fertility of resource, are alone sufficient to 

 achieve great results in the cure of disease. Moreover, as our 

 readers know, it is to be borne in mind that quite recently^ 

 together with renewed faith in therapeutic measures, there has, 

 80 to say, sprung up among scientific men a new era of manage- 

 ment of disease, full of novel ideas and fertile with new appliances 

 and methods. As is quite natural, we find that the diseases of 

 sheep are not nearly so well known nor so well managed as 

 those of mankind ; and there is no doubt that a great deal of the 

 loss which annually occurs among sheep is avoidable, and that a 

 great many deaths could be obviated by wise methods of cure. 



