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Ansemia in Sheep, known also by the terms 
skin will not move so freely on the subcutaneous tissues, the 
animals feeling " hard," as the expression is, and the conviction 
will be forced upon the examiner that they are losing instead 
of gaining flesh. Those upon which the adverse conditions 
have produced effects earlier or more severe, will be observed 
as wanting: enersrv and vivacitv, — movinsr after their fellows 
listlessly and with an absence of will, — seeming rather disposed 
to be at rest, and evidently unfit for any considerable exer- 
tion. The condition of the digestive organs of many may also 
attract attention ; some — the greater number — will be con- 
stipated in the bowels, others will be suffering from diarrhoea ; 
but in all probabilitv neither of these conditions amongst those 
severely affected will be of long continuance, as they are apt to 
alternate. Examined individually, the ordinary symptoms of 
anaemia are, as a rule, well marked ; the heart's action is rapid 
but weak ; the state of the visible mucous membranes, as seen 
in the mouth, eyes, and upper air-passage, is pale and bloodless, 
and the entire muscular svstem exhibits want of power and 
tonicity, with loss of bulk and rotundity ; while in some cases 
of a severe form or of long standing, one may notice in the 
inferior parts of the body, chest, and neck, patches of soft 
watery swellings, the result of effusion amongst the connective 
tissue beneath the skin. In severe and prolonged cases there 
is generally depravity of appetite, with inability to digest or 
assimilate the most digestible and nutritious materials ; while, 
in many which terminate fatallv, cerebral disturbance, chiefly in 
the form of coma or stupor, is found to usher in the last stage. 
Amongst parturient ewes, in addition to these indications, 
noted as occurring in other classes of sheep, the earliest 
diagnostic symptoms, and those most likely to attract atten- 
tion, are extreme feebleness during the last stage of gestation, 
together with great prostration and a want of healthy reaction 
succeeding the accomplishment of the act of parturition. In 
those cases which terminate fatally, this reaction is never com- 
pleted, and the prostration is never overcome, but gradually 
increases, death seeming to result from a deficient supply 
of blood to the brain, together with failure of the heart's action; 
both depending upon the altered quantity and quality of the 
circulating blood. 
Treatment. — In the management of stock in which anaemia 
has unequivocally declared itself, the chief indications to b( 
attended to are a correction or change of dietary. Everi 
endeavour must be made to supply the apparent want of thi 
albuminous and tissue-forming elements of the blood. Thi 
may be accomplished on the land where the animals ar 
located, by an addition to the roots or grasses upon which the 
