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raife them before you go to bed and with 

 little trouble give them the quantity of exercife 

 which may be thought neceflary. The giving 

 of frefh folds of turnips in the evening fre- 

 quently brings on this diforder, and occafions 

 almoft immediate death, efpecially if the fheep 

 have been kept rather fhort of food for fome 

 days before* I have known fifty fheep in one 

 hundred die of it in the courfe of one winter. 

 If by adminiftering the medicine here recom- 

 mended, and by ufing the ftraw-fold, five 

 only of the fifty had been faved, it would well 

 have paid the trouble attending their cure. 



It is very neceflary that fheep fhould be care- 

 fully attended, that, on the firft fymptoms of 

 the above or any other diftemper, remedies 

 may be applied, and a cure attempted in time. 



There is a diforder in fheep called the turn 

 or giddy. This diforder proceeds from a bleb 

 of watery matters formed upon the brain. 

 Some people attempt a cure by opening or 

 trepanning the fkull, extracting the bleb, and 

 then clofing the parts again : but this operation, 

 however eafy to an expert furgeon, is too diffi- 

 cult and dangerous to fucceed in the hands of 

 fuch clumfy operators as are generally employ- 

 ed on fuch occafions : and fix out of feven of 



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