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of time; for if a vein be opened when haemorrhage has commenced 
in one or two parts of the body, the animals will often fall and die 
during the bleeding, or very shortly afterwards. This fact is pe- 
culiarly striking in a flock where the disease has existed for some 
time, where it has already carried off many victims, and a great 
number of animals have been bled: and this explains why it is 
that the mortality has always increased during or shortly after the 
bleeding, when this preservative means has been put in execution 
too late. 
I am here compelled to observe, that many farmers have no con- 
fidence in our acquaintance with the diseases of sheep, and too 
often abandon the care of their flocks to ignorant and sometimes 
superstitious shepherds, who can with difficulty be brought to listen 
to reasonings and advice founded on experience and practice. 
As far as is possible I always bleed from the jugular; and when 
the disease declares itself violently in a flock, my first care is 
to separate all the weak animals from the strong, in order only 
to occupy myself with the latter, all of which I cause to be bled; 
beginning, however, with the most vigorous, those of the most san- 
guineous constitution, and, above all, those which have already 
presented some symptoms of the disease. 
In order to practise this operation with more celerity, I take all 
the most intelligent persons about the farm as assistants. Some 
cut the wool, tie the four legs, and mark the sheep on the head; 
others tie a bandage round the base of the neck in order to cause 
the vein to swell up, and bleed with a lancet or penknife; and. 
lastly, others put in the pins and make the ligature. By these 
means I have seen a thousand sheep bled in one day. 
At the commencement of my practice few shepherds knew how 
to bleed from the jugular; 1 may even say that none practised this 
bold method; therefore it required great perseverance to enable me 
to vanquish their obstinacy and idleness. Now, success has made 
me listened to. A great number of shepherds, and many farmers, 
know how to practise this operation. Besides, by tying the four 
legs of the sheep, laying it on the ground or on a table, and hold- 
ing the neck back, this salutary bleeding can be conveniently 
practised. 
When the disease appears with less intensity, and only attacks 
some beasts at intervals of several days, I have contented my- 
self with bleeding from the sub-cutaneous facial vein, which rises 
on the forehead, and principally results from the re-union of the 
superior labial vein with the angular # . This vein, the situation 
* A bleeding from this may be performed by an almost unpractised hand, 
and there is no necessity for cutting the wool. 
