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destroyed ; the lungs, in most of the cases, presented a healthy 

 appearance, as did also the liver. Fifty-eight died in the 

 course of five days after eating the wheat. The others were 

 bled, and half a pint of linseed oil given to each, and 

 they recovered, but many of them have since thrown their 

 lambs." 



IMPACTION OF THE STOMACH IN THE HOESE. 



This disorder, very frequently seen in Scotland, and which 

 I have witnessed in France, raging like an epizootic, has 

 received more names than perhaps any other disease affecting 

 the lower animals. Amongst us it has received the name of 

 stomach-staggers, but remarkable cases of it have been de- 

 scribed under the heads apoplexy, phrenitis, and classed 

 amongst diseases of the nervous system. Continental authors 

 have been even more vague and absurd in their designations 

 of this malady. They have even called it gastro-conjuncti- 

 vitis gastro-hepatitis gastro-cephalitis indicating an in- 

 flammatory nature which it does not possess, and the 

 affection of parts which are only slightly disturbed in func- 

 tion. The terms, vertige-abdominal, stomach-staggers or 

 magenkoller of the Germans, are more appropriate, because 

 indicating certain facts such as the staggering or vertiginous 

 symptoms, and the derangement of the stomach or abdominal 

 organs. 



Causes. The malady appears as an enzootic or epizootic 

 in districts and countries deluged with rain, especially during 

 the hay-making season. 



This was the cause of the disease in many parts of France 

 in 1854-55, and also in Scotland in 1856, and even last 

 year. In the Veterinarian's Vade-Mecum, referring to the 

 injurious influence of musty hay, I say : 



"During my sojourn in Lyons in 1855, I had occasion to 



