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XXXIV. — Practical Essay on the Diseases of Sheep. — To which 

 the Prize of Ten Guineas was awarded by the Saffron-Walden 

 Agricultural Society, in Sept. 1839.— By Henry Cleeve, 

 of Rawreth Hall, near Rayleigh, Essex. 



[Communicated by the Right Hon. Lord Braybrooke, President, and the Committee 

 of the Saflf'ron-Walden Agricultural Society, as the best practical Essay on the 

 Diseases of Sheep, for the Prize offered, in 1836, by Henry John Adeaue, Esq., 

 one of the Vice-Presidents.] 



The most convenient way for a practical man to convey practical 

 information in a compendious form is to disclaim all pretensions 

 to scientific arrangement. Farmers are not always men of leisure, 

 and their literary pursuits are too limited by opportunity to admit 

 of their studying many branches of knowledge essentially con- 

 nected with their business. Among these may be included com- 

 parative anatomy and the pathology of the animal creation. 



It is proposed therefore to enter into a succinct enumeration of 

 the diseases of sheep, a short explanation of their causes and 

 symptoms, and a description of the treatment which I have either 

 from my personal experience found successful, or have under- 

 stood to be so on the authority of intelligent friends. I shall add 

 a few remarks on the selection of stock and the more important 

 points connected with breeding. 



Some of the diseases of sheep are almost peculiar to them, and 

 comparatively unknown in other descriptions of stock : others 

 arise from accidental causes, to which all animals are equally 

 liable, with slight variations as to the symptoms. So far it seems 

 expedient, with a view to clearness and precision, to arrange my 

 subject. I will therefore insert them in the following order : — 



Page. 



Water in the Head. . 295 

 Goggles, Turnsick, &c. 296 



Apoplexy, Blood . . 299 



Epilepsy 300 



Palsy 300 



Rabies 301 



Ophthalmia .... 302 



Black-Muzzle ... 303 



Thrush ♦ 303 



Hove, Hoven, or Blown 304 



Diarrhoea 306 



Dysentery 306 



Rot 307 



Page. 



Dropsy 314 



Red water 314 



Braxy 316 



Blackwater .... 316 



Poisons 316 



Inflammation , . . 316 

 Cough, or Cold . . .317 

 Consumption . . , ,318 



Foot-Rot 318 



Wounds 321 



Scab, Pelt-Rot, &c. . 323-5 

 The Fly, or Sore-heads 326-7 

 Ticks 328 



Water in the Head is often confounded with the next disease 

 to which I shall refer, namely, turnsick, or goggles ; but the two 

 complaints are essentially different. Water in the head is more 



