DIARRHOEA IN LAMBS. 
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soon became more distressing ; and indeed so much so, that 
the shepherd was unable to send his dog for them without 
endangering their lives from over-exertion. The breathings 
likewise, was very quick and laboured ; the fore as well as 
the hind legs very much abducted from the body; pulse quick 
and thready, with all the visible mucous membranes injected ; 
diarrhoea was only seen here and there, but in no case w as it 
violent. 
On a post-mortem examination, the filaricc bronchi w 7 ere 
seen in the nostrils and at the back of the mouth ; w r hile the 
bronchial tubes and their ramifications w 7 ere literally crammed 
with these entozoa. The w hole structure of the lungs was 
likewise much inflated with blood. The intestines presented 
a normal appearance, excepting in a few patches, and here also 
were to be found w r orms similar to those in the tubes of the 
lungs. 
This state of things caused me to alter my opinion, and to 
adopt the one I now hold : viz., that the seat of the disease is 
in the air-passages, giving rise to so much irritation, as to 
disorder the functions of almost all the other organs essential 
to life. Hence arose my present mode of treatment, wffiich 
has proved very successful in every case where my instruc- 
tions have been properly carried out. 
My first step is, to get the animals removed from low 
meadow 7 s or succulent grasses to an older pasture facing the 
south. I then proceed to drench every one with a mixture 
composed of the following: Sp. Tereb., Sp. Nit. Aether, 01. 
Petrol., Ext. Belladonnae, et Ol. Lini. At the same time, I 
pour a small quantity of the compound into each nostril. The 
following day 1 have them confined in a close house, and 
fumigate them with burnt sulphur, petroleum, and turpentine ; 
using w 7 ith it some chlorine gas. My method of disengaging 
the latter is by mixing together in a basin, Plumbi Rubr., 
Sodii Chlorid., Acid. Sulph., and this kept w T ell stirred with a 
stick w ill soon give off a sufficient quantity of the gas. This 
fumigation I repeat every third day for a fortnight ; and from 
the commencement of this treatment I have had the satisfac- 
tion of finding the cough, together with all the other symp- 
toms, lessen ; and at the end of the above-named period have 
generally been able to discharge my patients. If the ap- 
proaching cold and w T et season should have any other than a 
favorable effect, I will communicate in another letter, but now 
I pause, fearing I shall otherwise weary your readers. 
Yours, &c. 
