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blood more aqueous, cause the urine to flow more freely, and 
favour cutaneous transpiration. 
During the summer the sheep should be kept in the fold and 
only given at first a scanty ration of straw, and afterwards a little 
fodder. They may be allowed to graze for about an hour in the 
morning before the dew has evaporated, and towards evening after 
the heat of the day has passed, on the tender watery herbage which 
grows on damp meadows, the after-math of permanent or tempo- 
rary meadows, &c. An abundance of the above-mentioned drinks 
should be given, unless there is some running water within reach 
of the flock. 
Whatever be the season, the doors and windows should be 
opened to allow free access to fresh air, the folds well fenced, the 
animals well littered, and, when the weather is favourable, they 
should be driven out for a short distance, but not in the heat of the 
day, or far enough to fatigue them. 
I shall merely mention a local mode of treatment which I have 
in general found to succeed with oxen attacked with sanguineous 
congestion attended by sub-cutaneous heemorrhage, but which has 
almost invariably failed with sheep suffering from this disease. 
This mode, employed in conjunction with bleeding, consists, 1st, 
in making a tolerably large incision in the sloping part of the tu- 
mours formed by effusion of blood; 2d, in taking off the clots of 
blood and squeezing out the serosity infiltrated in the cpllular tis- 
sue ; 3d, in well washing the wound with salt water, cleaning it 
out afterwards with chloride of lime if it becomes offensive, and 
dressing it when necessary with a more or less active digestive. 
These lumps or sanguineous depositions have, in the horse and 
ox, often been wrongly taken for carbunculous tumours. Here, as in 
the sheep, they develope themselves on plethoric animals, and ani- 
mals of a strong constitution ; on those which are abundantly fed, 
and resemble in their anatomical characteristics those agglomerated 
collections of blood which are determined by violent contusions. 
These tumours are often re-absorbed by abundant and reiterated 
bleedings. (Observations already made by MM. Leblanc and 
Professor Gelle.) 
Precautions to be taken to prevent the Disease . — A farmer who 
values his flock should, in order to avoid the terrible ravages com- 
mitted by sanguineous congestion in the sheep in all our most 
extensive agricultural and grazing establishments, 
1. Diet the animals regularly and carefully throughout every 
season. 
2. During winter add refreshing roots to heating fodder and 
grain. 
