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TAENIA IN LAMBS. 
fore came to the conclusion that it was a vegetable poison, 
and that most likely it was savin. 
I have a case of fractured trachea, causing extensive 
emphysema all over the body, which I shall have much 
pleasure in sending you at some future time. 
Believe me, yours truly, &c. 
TiENIA IN LAMBS. 
By W. Cox, M.R.C.V.S., Ashbourne. 
Dear Sirs, — The lambing season in this district has been 
rather an unfavorable one, and great losses have been sus- 
tained both among ewes and lambs, arising, no doubt, from 
two causes. First, the severity of the winter; secondly, 
improper or rather insufficient feeding. Sheep did well 
generally, until the severe weather commenced, after which 
good hay and turnips did not appear sufficient to keep them 
in condition, without the aid of corn. I very foolishly let 
my own ewes get out of condition the first month of the cold 
weather, for want of corn, although my land is of the very best 
quality, and they had plenty of good hay and some turnips. 
In consequence, thereof, I shared my neighbours* fate in the 
loss of lambs, arising from their being weakly, and the ewes 
short of milk ; but I lost no sheep. Since the lambing sea- 
son, what are left of the lambs are all doing well. This, 
however, is not the case generally, as a disease has appeared 
among the lambs of very many of my employers, and is 
destroying them by hundreds. The symptoms are, wasting 
in condition, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, or rather dysentery, 
and the sequela is generally death. The post-mortem exami- 
nations which I have made have proved to me that this 
disease is brought on by the existence and ravages of large 
quantities of tape-worms, which I have found inhabiting the 
intestines, more particularly the large ones, and which prey 
upon the aliment and mucous membrane of the bowels. The 
first cases I attended were in the latter end of May, at Mr. 
Crafer’s, of Longford Park, a Norfolk gentleman ; he had 
been administering several remedies for diarrhoea in lambs, 
which he had received out of Norfolk, but without any good 
resulting. Fourteen were already dead, and two more died 
soon after my arrival. 
The post-mortem examination soon brought to light the 
enormous quantity of tape- worms already described. 
