WIND. 



Tlie following Table (hews the angles which every rhumb or point of the compafs makes with the meridian : by meal 

 of wliich the direaion of the wind, &c. may be determined. 



For the ufe of the winds in navigation, &c. fee Sailing. 



Wind, a difeafe in fheep of a very dangerous and dif- 

 treffing kind. 



It is obferved in the Shepherd's Guide, that in this com- 

 plaint, the ftieep, immediately after being clipped or fhorn, 

 appear to be in violent pain, their fides are fomewhat ex- 

 tended, and their breathing very fhort, the head is hung 

 down drooping, and they have a great averfion to moving 

 or walking. Thefe fymptoms continue to increafe until 

 the fheep dies, which is in a very few hours, uiilefs a violent 

 purging comes on, which generally gives immediate relief. 

 On inquiring for the name of this affeftion, the writer fays, 

 he found it was called the wind, but where the feat of it 

 lay few could tell him ; fome thought it was in the head, 

 others in the lungs ; and the remedies they applied were as 

 various as their opinions of the nature of the difeafe. 



Not being fatisfied with thefe accounts, he endeavoured, 

 by infpefting the carcafes of Iheep that died of the dif- 

 eafe, to difcover the caufe and feat of the complaint. 

 Oa opening four (heep that died of the difeafe, he found all 



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the inteftines rather diftended with flatus, but not ia any 

 great degree. Their blood-vefiels were very turgid, and of 

 a deep red, particularly thofe of the large inteftines, except- 

 ing the reftum, or what is called the bum-gut, which had a 

 healthy appearance, as likewife had the ftomach, milt, caul, 

 liver, heart, lungs, and in fhort all the vifcera contained in 

 the cavity of the trunk. From thefe appearances he will 

 venture to fay, that the difeafe in queftion is a violent in- 

 flammation of the inteftines, perhaps in fome meafure arifing 

 from bruifes in fhearing, but more fo from lofing a warm 

 clothing, and being fuddenly expofed to cold air and cold 

 feeding. 



He therefore recommends to farmers, that on the firft 

 appearances of the complaint they put the fheep into a liable 

 or other warm place, and immediately bleed it freely. Then 

 to bruife a quarter of an ounce of fome carminative feed, 

 fuch as carraway, anife, cummin, or fennel, and to mix 

 thefe with two ounces of Glauber's purging falls, in a pint 

 of water, placing it on a fire, and making it boil for a few 

 minutes, then to ftrain it off. Then to add a quarter of an 



ounce 



