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in stocking is taken to prevent it; wMch if the graziers did 

 not, they -would lose half their flock .annually. My opinion is 

 that the soil of Bomney Marsh, being very richj consequently 

 the clover and grasses equally so, that sheep feeding on these 

 rich pastures must be more subject to inflammation than those 

 ffed on poorer soils, particularly in the spring, when the young 

 shoots of the grasses and natural clover are full of juices: 

 besides, when in this state they are greedily eaten by the 

 animals, which often proves fatal, particularly after a warm 

 day or two. 



" On opening them the contents of the abdomen are more 

 or less inflamed, and some parts are very dark colored, and 

 emit a very ofiensive smell. Sometimes the heart or lungs 

 appear ta be primarily affected; and sometimes the liver, 

 bowels, and stomach, which is very easily perceived by the 

 dark and livid appearance cff the part. It is said that bad- 

 mouthed sheep jiever die of this disease, because they can not 

 feed on short, nutritious grass, but on coarse long herbage 

 which does not enrich the blood. I am of opinion that it is 

 an inflammatory disease, and that the only remedy is large 

 bleedings, so as rapidly to lower the system." 



Malignant Inflammatoet Pevee. — '■ This malady 

 appears occasionally in England, but is common as a 

 very destructive epizootic in France, where it is termed 

 Xa Maladie de Sologne. It prevails in low, marshy districts 

 where the, sheep are wintered very poorly, folded in close, 

 damp stables, and turned out in the spring to gorge them- 

 selves on the watery, rapidly-growing vegetation. It appears 

 toward the close of spring, and rages until August. Its early 

 symptoms are, says 'Mr. Youatt, "suspension of rumination, 

 loss of appetite, dullness, weeping from the eye, coldness of 

 the ears, alternate shiverings' and flashings of heat. Soon 

 afterward the mouth and the breath become hot — the eyes 

 are red — the pulse is accelerated, and weak and irregular — 

 and there is a mucous discharge from the nostrils, to which 

 succeeds bloody mucus, and then a mixture of purulent 

 matter and blood. By degrees, the urine becomes bloody 

 and the excrements are covered with gruinous blood — the 

 head and legs are swelled — the debility is extreme, and the 

 animal dies in the course of eight or ten days. The greater 

 part of the animals attacked by this disease perish. The 

 sheep in the finest condition die soonest, and with greatest 

 certainty." ' , • 



