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the nostrils to and from the sinuses it is otherwise ; for at 
those periods, and especially the latter, they greatly annoy 
the sheep, giving rise to a degree of excitement in nervous 
temperaments which in a few T days often creates alarm in the 
mind of the shepherd. When, however, the sheep possesses 
a plethoric constitution as well as a nervous one, or the former 
only, and is highly fed, and in that condition liable to inflam- 
matory attacks of the respiratory functions, this excitement 
may counteract, or rather prevent pneumonia, pleuro-pneu- 
monia, or other inflammatory affections ; and w r hen the bots 
are once expelled from the nostrils, it has long been observed 
that such sheep fatten very rapidly. But if they are seized 
and the attack prove fatal before the bots have loosened their 
tentacula or hold from the membrane of the frontal sinus, no 
counteracting excitement will be experienced, while they (the 
bots) will be found there by the morbid anatomist. 
Whether sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica), or any other 
sternutatory, could be given to sheep to promote the dis- 
charge of bots in nervous and phlegmatic cases, where excite- 
ment does harm, is for the Veterinary College to say ; but in 
plethoric constitutions it would appear that “ let alone” is 
the w r ay to comply with the adage. 
There are several other maladies and topics we had in- 
tended to notice, but having exceeded our limits already, 
these we must defer to a more convenient season, meantime 
thanking the governors of the Royal Veterinary College for 
their report . — Farmers Magazine . 
THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OE SOME GLANDULAR 
SECRETIONS. 
From a series of elaborate investigations, which are fully 
detailed in the Annalen der Chemie und Fkarmacie , Gorup- 
Besanez has arrived at the following conclusions respecting 
the constituents of glandular fluids : 
1. The thymus and thyroid glands, and the pancreas, as 
well as the liver and the spleen, contain a more or less con- 
siderable quantity of leucine. This substance appears to be 
very generally distributed in the glandular system ; for besides 
having been found by Frerichs, Stadeler, and Cloetta in the 
above-named glands, it has also been detected in the salivary 
and lymphatic glands, the lungs, and the brain. By far the 
greatest quantity of leucine exists in the pancreas. In this 
