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DiarrhOBa. — Treatment. — Powdered opium, two 

 grains; powdered gentian and powdered ginger, one 

 drachm each: mix. To be given in an infusion of lin- 

 seed, and repeated if necessary. 



Hydrocephalus Hydatideus, Sturdy, etc. — I am 



pleased to think that some addition has been made of late 

 to the stock of veterinary knowledge as regards the use- 

 ful animals, and I trust that the time is proximate when 

 the good sense of the American farmers will demand that 

 a knowledge of the diseases and general management of 

 sheep shall form a prominent feature in the education of 

 the veterinary surgeon. 



Sturdy is a singular disease, a very prevalent and fatal 

 one, if left to run its course ; so much so, indeed, that in 

 France alone, no less than one million sheep die yearly, 

 or are destroyed by this pest of the ovine race. The 

 symptoms by which this disease is accompanied are as 

 follows : In the commencement, the animals will be ob- 

 served to stop in the midst of their grazing, and then start 

 away in a gallop over the field. They seem at times to 

 be utterly unconscious where they are, separating them- 

 selves from the rest of the herd. By-and-by they become 

 dull, and have a peculiar staggering gait. If there is a 

 brook or rivulet within their reach, you are almost sure to 

 find them standing by it, apparently becoming giddy, not 

 unfrequently tumbling in, and are thus lost. They lose 

 flesh, the countenance becomes haggard, and subsequently, 

 the animals thus affected commence a rotary motion, going 

 round and round in the same directions, with the head in- 

 clined to the same side of the body. Now it almost ceases 

 to feed or ruminate, as it cannot restrain the rotary mo- 



