ESSAY ON DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



The following was tlie Essay for wliicli the United 

 States Agricultural Society awarded their medal and 

 diploma, in the year 1861, to Robert McClure, of Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



The diseases of sheep which are laid under contribu- 

 tion are : — First Those that are the most frequent and 

 destructive, therefore of the greatest interest and con- 

 cern to the sheep farmer. Second. Those to which 

 treatment and preventative means can be employed with 

 profit and success. Third. Those that their pathology 

 have been in a measure or entirely misunderstood, there- 

 fore wrongly treated, and preventative measures neg- 

 lected or misapplied. Fourth. These diseases will em- 

 brace a large number of maladies that have been treated 

 of separately in the work by the late Wm. Youatt as in- 

 dependent affections, when literally a great many dis- 

 eases alluded to by this indefatigible writer are but 

 different degrees and conditions of the same morbid 

 phenomena. 



Braxy-Enterites. — {Inflammation of the Bowels,) — 

 Inflammation of the bowels is commonly known by the 



