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However, when fheep are once infected, it 

 is certain that, if the farmer will then perfift 

 in breeding from the tainted flock, he will run 

 the rifque of lofmg his whole flock ; for thefe 

 difeafes are undoubtedly hereditary. I there- 

 fore advife the farmer, fo foon as he perceives 

 the diftemper gaining ground, to change the 

 breed ; as no perfect cure has ever, to my 

 knowledge, been performed by any means 

 hitherto employed. 



When a fheep is attacked by the meagrims, 

 the fymptoms are, cocking his tail like a well- 

 nicked horfe : he will canter like a lady's pad ; 

 and if you clap your hand upon his back, he 

 will immediately drop down ; which feems to 

 indicate that the diforder is feated in the back 

 of the animal. Rickets are fo much like mea- 

 grims, that I have never been able to dif- 

 tinguifh the one from the other. 



When a fheep has the rubbers, it occafions 



fuch an itching that, if he can get near a poft, 



a tree, or any thing proper for his purpofe, he 



will rub himfelf to death — he will neglect his 



food and fall into a regular decline, and be two, 



or three months dying* 



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