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IMPRESSIONS FROM RECENT MANUSCRIPTS. 



too near to a controversy, and are too per- 

 sonal to be here noticed; those on the 

 smut in wheat, point out "washing the 

 seed very clean, pickling it, and encrust- 

 ing the grains witli quick-lime," as the 

 only preventives of the smut hitherto 

 known or practised. The writer consi- 

 ders it very immaterial which of these 

 operations produce the effect, so long as 

 it is certain that the seed thus treated has 

 yielded a crop free from smut, while the 

 same seed, sown without any preparation, 

 has had smut balls. 



Observations. — If treating wheat, pre- 

 vious to sowing, in the manner here re- 

 commended, be only a popular prejudice, 

 as many have asserted, it is worthy of 

 recollection, that the error is on the safe 

 side of the question. 



From the same. 

 ON THE SUITABLE REMEDIES FOR THE 

 MOST PREVALENT DISEASES OF SHEEP, 



(in FRANCE ) Read at a meeting of 

 the Royal Medical Society of Paris, by- 

 Professor Daubenton. Farm. Mag. 

 No. 33. 



The Professor, who kept a flock of 

 sheep in the northern extremity of Bur- 

 gundy, observes that in France, sheep are 

 not affected by any intemperature of the 

 air, but only by the violent heat of (he 

 sun, as the wool defends them from the 

 most intense cold, the heaviest and long- 

 est continued raias and snows, or the se- 

 verest frosts, were productive of no dis- 

 (€£^se,, while the heat of the sun caused 

 linany to die in the field, and more would 

 jhave fallen victims to it, had not proper 

 f)recautions been speedily observed. 



This disease, which from its cause, is 

 .<Ienominated the heat, is stated most fre- 

 rquently to. attack tiiose sheep which are 

 iTiost free in blood, best fed, and most ro- 

 ibust ; the animal attacked by it gasps for 

 t)reath, foams at the mouth, and bleeds at 

 the nose; the eye-balls become red, the 

 .animal droops its head, staggers, and soon 

 falls dead. After death, all the parts of 

 the head and throat are of a mixed colour 

 of red, and somewhat blackish, and the 

 blood-vessels there, appear much swelled 

 on dissection. All these symptoms, he 

 remarks, naturally suggests blood-letting 

 as a remedy, which he has always found 

 ^o effect a speedy cure if administered in 



time. He proceeds to enumerate the se- 

 veral parts of the body in which sheep 

 are occasionally bled, and the different 

 mode of performing the operation. But 

 as in this disease the bleeding of the sheep 

 must be performed quickly, and the ves- 

 sel opened by the operation be so large as 

 to give a suflicient quantity of blood, and 

 be situated in a part of the body where 

 there is no wool, he recommends bleeding 

 in the cheek, as a method equal and simple, 

 and prefers it to all others This is de- 

 scribed as done on the spot where the 

 fourth cheek-tooth is situated, which is 

 marked on the external surface of the 

 bone of the upper jaw, by a tubercle, suf- 

 ficiently prominent to be very sensible to 

 the finger when the skin of the cheek is 

 touched. His words are, " to let blood 

 in the cheek, the shepherd begins by 

 placing an open lancet between his teeth; 

 he then puts the sheep between his legs, 

 and squeezes it so as to hold it fast ; his 

 left knee is rather more advanced than the 

 right ; he places his left hand under the 

 head of the animal, and grasps the under 

 jaw, so that his fingers are under the right 

 side of that jaw near its hinder extremity, 

 in order to press the angular vein which 

 passes in that place, and to make it swell, 

 the shepherd then touches with the other 

 hand the right cheek of the sheep, at the 

 spot near equi-distant from the eye and 

 the mouth; he there finds the tubercle 

 which is to guide him; he can only feel 

 the angular vein swelled below this tuber- 

 cle. He then takes in his right hand the 

 lancet, which he holds in his mouth, and 

 makes the incision from below upwards 

 half an inch in length, below the middle 

 of the projection, which serves to guide 

 him. 



( To be continued.) 



TO take impressions FROM RECENT 



manuscripts. 

 This is done by means of fusible metals. 

 In order to show the application of it, 

 paste a piece of paper on the bottom of a 

 saucer, and allow it to dry; then write 

 upon it with common writing ink and 

 sprinkle some finely powdered gum ara- 

 ble over the writing, which produces a 

 slight relief When it is well dried, and 

 the adhering powder brushed off, the fusi- 

 ble metal is poured into the saucer and is 



