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HYDROPHOBIA IN SHEEP. 
P.S. — I omitted to mention that on removing the morbid 
specimens I have transmitted for your inspection, two small 
cords or peduncles were incised, connecting them to the 
thalami optici, a portion of which peduncle is now attached : 
hence the cause of the inference I deduced. 
[*** These singular productions (singular from the situa- 
tion in which they were found) appear to us like fibrous 
tumours , perhaps on the eve, from the earthy matters found 
within them, of taking on a further change. We do not think 
they can be converted pineal glands, being double, or con- 
sisting rather of two distinct tumours, tilling the ventricles ; 
neither do they seem to be growths or alterations of any 
other parts of the cerebral substance, but they appear rather 
as vegetations sui generis . — Ed. Vet.] 
HYDROPHOBIA IN SHEEP. 
By Thos. Gudgin, M.R.C.V.S., Bedford. 
Dear Sir, — There having appeared in your valuable 
journal two or three accounts of rabies in sheep occurring in 
the parish of Wootton, Bedfordshire, I beg to offer further 
information on this rare and interesting subject. I must 
start with the avowal that I am unable to state whether 
these sheep were bitten by a dog, as no ocular proof of the 
fact is established ; certain it is, however, that one night in 
December, 1852, several sheep, belonging to Mr. Whitehouse, 
of Wootton village, and Mr. Whitworth, also of Wootton, 
were worried by some animal, and suffered extensive lacera- 
tions of the ears, face, and other parts of the body, but prin- 
cipally confined to the head and face. Due inquiries were 
instituted, but no reliable evidence of the depredator, his 
antecedents or whereabouts, was in any way obtainable. 
The wounds healed and cicatrised, and no suspicions were 
entertained of the dog or other animal which inflicted these 
wounds being rabid. Nineteen days from the period of 
attack, two of the sheep were observed to be unwell, and, 
being in good condition, were at once consigned to the 
butcher, who dressed them in the usual way for Newgate 
Market. The following night three more were attacked. 
A suspicion of the nature of the disease now crossed the 
mind of the proprietor, and metropolitan stomachs were spared 
the digestion of rabid mutton. Hearing this report con- 
firmed in all quarters, on the 25th of January I called upon 
