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remedv. This complainc will sometimes kill an 

 animal in a lew hours ; no time, therefore, should 

 be lost in trifling attempts ; nor should the animal 

 be left until perfectly relieved. 



Foot Rot. This is one of the diseases of sheep, 

 with which, I believe, we were totally unacquaint- 

 ed, until it was brought to us, among the sheep 

 imported last fall ; but as it has since occurred in 

 two flocks of some of those sheep in my neigh- 

 bourhood, besides my own, it cannot be doubted 

 but that it has already, and probably will in future, 

 appear in many others. It is one of the most in- 

 fectious diseases of sheep ; and although when 

 early attended to, neither dangerous riot diflicult 

 of cure, yet when neglected in the beginning, be- 

 comes so in a great degree, and spreads with 

 great rapidity through a flock. 



Its first, and most evident symptom is lameness. 

 Wherever therefore, there is the least reason to 

 suspect it, every instance of lameness, as soon as it 

 occurs, shoiild be carefully examined. 



In the first stage, and mildest species of the dis- 

 ease, the animal appears no otherwise indisposed 

 than as it is a little lame. On examining the foot, 

 a slight redness appears round the hoof, at its 

 junction with the skin ; whence, or from the skin, 

 between the hoofs, a small quantity of offensive 

 matter oozes, and the foot itself, feels somewhat 

 heated j but no other symptom of fever occurs. 



In the second stage or species, the disease is 



