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DISEASES OF THE HEART, LIVER, BRAIN, AND 
INTESTINES IN LAMBS. 
By J. P. Vincent, M.R.C.V.S., Devizes. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — I t affords me pleasure to forward the following account 
of disease in lambs for the pages of The VETERINARIAN, should 
it be deemed sufficiently interesting, inasmuch as it so seldom 
happens that professional men are called upon to render service 
in the sheepfold ; and especially as the owner, the shepherd, and 
others, had the candour to admit, that, until I pointed out to them 
the nature of the malady, they were in total ignorance of it, and of 
the cause of death. 
Aprils, 18 18. — By desire I went to the house of Mr. Cuff, 
living at Rushall, he having within the last month lost 143 lambs. 
His flock of ewes, in number 493, lambed in the month of February. 
After lambing, they were first put upon Sweed turnips for a fort- 
night or three weeks ; a fortnight upon young turnips, and subse- 
quently upon water meadow ; the lambs having troughs containing 
pollard. Shortly after being upon water meadow, some of the best 
of the lambs now and then died. The deaths were observed gra- 
dually to increase : the symptoms were, suddenly discontinuing to 
feed, being seized with a giddiness, running round, falling, and 
dying after about half an hour. On the morning of the 28th, 
Mr. C. had the very great mortification to behold no less than 37 
of his best lambs thrown out of the fold dead. On the 29th, 
thinking the keep was too stimulating, he had the flock removed 
to the downs; and on the same day, as above stated, he sent for 
me, to make a few post-mortem examinations, so as to arrive at 
the cause of this sad mortality, and to endeavour, if possible, to 
prevent its further progress. Five lambs were then submitted to 
my inspection. Conceiving, from the symptoms stated, that the 
brain was the seat of the disease, the bones enveloping that organ 
were carefully removed from the heads of two. In each, the only 
morbid appearance was some dark-coloured blood in the longitu- 
dinal sinus, a general turgescence of the bloodvessels of the brain, 
and of the plexus choroides in particular: there was no extravasa- 
tion of blood nor accumulation of serum in the ventricles. Upon 
laying open the chest, and breaking back the ribs, in every instance, 
without exception, in the best lambs — and altogether, on that and 
other occasions, the carcasses of many were inspected — the lungs 
presented a congested appearance, not inflamed, but simply charged 
