632 ON THE VARIOLA OR SMALL-POX OF SHEEP. 
cases, avoiding cold drafts. The air-holes should be made towards 
the higher portion of the building, so as to allow the effluvia to get 
away, without permitting the wet to come in ; also never allow the 
food not eaten to remain too long before the animals, but take it 
away, and dispose of it in such a way as not to come near the 
healthy stock. 8th. Allow no dogs to come near the infected 
sheep, not even the shepherd’s dog. 9th. Enjoin strict cleanli- 
ness. 10th. If it is needful to buy provender, purchase from those 
parties free from the disease ; but, if possible, neither buy nor sell. 
11th. Avoid bleeding your stock as a precautionary measure, 
and also all quack nostrums, and remedies as preventives ; but, 
should your stock be attacked, place them under the surveillance 
of a regularly educated veterinary surgeon. 12th. When any of 
the animals die, bury the whole carcass with its fleece very deep . 
13th. Let the portion of the buildings devoted to your worst cases 
be fumigated, if possible, once a-day (taking care the sheep are 
out at the time) with three parts common salt, one of oxide of man- 
ganese (if it can be got, otherwise leave it out), and place them 
in a warm earthenware pipkin; put it in the buildings, and 
add two parts of oil of vitriol : stir them well together with a stick, 
close the doors immediately for a short time, and then fling them 
open. As soon as the fumes are passed away, the sheep may be 
turned in again ; but where this is inconvenient, do not fail em- 
ploying chloride of lime, as previously directed. 
Trusting that the information conveyed in the above paper may 
be found useful to my professional brethren, and of service to the 
agricultural interest of this country, 
I remain, &c. 
Oct. 19, 1847. 
SOME OBSCURE LESIONS UNMASKED, 
INCIDENTAL TO THE FORE LEGS OF RACE-HORSES, RESULTING 
FROM THE OUTRAGES COMMITTED BY THE TRAINING OF 
TWO-YEARS-OLD STOCK. 
By James Turner, V.S., Regent-street. 
I FAIN would exhort noblemen and gentlemen of the turf to take 
warning from the exposition I am about to make of only a portion 
of the evils resulting from the premature work imposed upon the 
growing limbs of their equestrian treasures (the fairest of the 
creation next the human). A rude joint in mechanics is somewhat 
