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though frightened ; loss of flesh ; haggard countenance 

 blue color in the eye ; after awhile, a rotary motion, 

 always one way blindness and death ensues. 



Preventive. In some sections of Europe the back? 

 of young sheep are protected, during the inclement sea- 

 son, by a covering of cloth or other article. 



Remedy. Examine the skull for a soft spot in the 

 bone, which indicates where the water is collected. 

 Then perforate the skull with a trocar, accompanied by 

 a tube through whxh the water may escape. After 

 which, apply a few drops of the essence of myrrh to the 

 aperture. Shelter the animal and dress the wound. 

 This sometimes succeeds, but more often the reverse. 

 But better save a few than lose the whole. A writer on 

 this subject says that he knew a shepherd in Europe 

 that saved nearly all on which he operated in this man- 

 ner, while he himself lost almost all on which he operated 

 in this way, but saved nearly all on which he operated 

 by running a sharp wire up the nostril into the brain, 

 and letting out the water. He thought that in tapping 

 through the skull, he might not open deep enough. Ir 

 either way, it is a nice operation, that requires skill. 



A sheep with this disorder was pronounced incurable, 

 and left to die ; and a boy bored a hole with a gimlet 

 exactly on the top of the scalp ; the water streamed out ; 

 in a few minutes, the sheep started up, and ate grass, 

 and shortly recovered. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 



This disease is caused by confinement in bad air, or 

 high feeding, whether stall feeding or luxuriant pasture. 



Symptoms of this disease are so very different from 

 sturdy, which we have just described, that they are 

 easily distinguished. This disease generally attacks the 

 nealthiest sheep, and of all ages, and more in hot weather 

 chan early in spring. In this complaint there is no 

 stupidity, no disinclination to move, no moving round 

 and round ; but the eyes are protruding, bloodshot and 

 bright, and the countenance seems eager and ferocious, 

 not depressed and nxious. The animal is i - constan* 



