MISCELLANEA. 
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Goggles in Sheep. 
A writer in the Agricultural Magazine, October 1840, says 
that, losing several of his sheep by this disease, and the number 
rapidly increasing, he became alarmed. His shepherd told him 
that he had a never-failing receipt for the cure of the dunt, which 
was given him by a lady who was housekeeper in a nobleman’s 
family. It was as follows : — “ Take, tar six spoonfuls ; fish oil, the 
same ; fuller’s earth, one pugil ; make water or chamberlye as 
much as needeth ; mustard seed, three spoonfuls ; marsh-mallow 
roots gathered in the first night of the new moon, one pugil, and 
seethe the whole over a slow fire. You are to rub the head and 
under the horns of the dunted sheep three times, and (God willing) 
he will heal.” — Prob. est. 
He, with a mind anxious, and off his guard, as that of a person 
not knowing what to do in such a case, suffered the two doctors, 
old and young, to boil their hodge-podge, and use it upon seve- 
ral of the lambs. Several died almost directly ; the malady in- 
creased, and the poor old man seemed greatly cast down at the ill 
success of his never-failing remedy, which he really now seemed to 
despise. “ Seeing this,” says the writer, “ I gave him half-a-guinea 
for his trouble, on condition of his burning the old farrago of impo- 
sition before my face, which he very willinglv did in the kitchen 
fire.” 
Druggists’ Physic for Horses. — Cruelty to Animals. 
\From the Ulster Gazette .] 
There can be no greater cruelty practised towards man or beast 
than to u physic them to death” unskilfully. I should be amongst 
the last to complain of quackery, and the unskilful treatment of 
cattle by unqualified persons, as it sometimes affords us a pro- 
fitable accumulation of business, in being called on professionally 
to remedy the evils, if possible, inflicted. But I neither court nor 
admire this branch of professional practice, no matter how profitable, 
could it be avoided; but which must continue so long as the owners 
of valuable stock suffer themselves to be stultified by adopting the 
nostrums and administering the medicines prescribed and com- 
pounded by unskilful and unqualified persons, not by any means 
professionally acquainted with the diseases of cattle, no matter 
