DISEASES OF SHEER 



For the fol- 

 lowing Essa}'^ on 

 the Diseases of 

 Sheep, Dr. Rob- 

 ert McClure was 

 awarded a medal 

 and diploma by 

 the United States 

 Agricultural So- 

 ciety : 



The diseases of sheep which are laid under contribution 

 are : — First. Those that are the most frequent and destruc- 

 tive, therefore of the greatest interest and concern to the 

 sheep farmer. Second. Those in which treatment and 

 preventative means can be employed with profit and suc- 

 cess. Third. Those the pathology of which has been in a 

 measure or entirely misunderstood, therefore wrongly 

 treated, and the preventative measures neglected or mis- 

 applied. 



These diseases will embrace a large number of maladies 

 that have been treated of separately in the work by the 

 late Wm. Youatt as independent affections, when literally 

 a great many diseases alluded to by this indefatigable 

 writer are but different degrees and conditions of the same 

 morbid phenomena. 



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