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month, and there was frost and snow at the latter part of it. In- 
fluenza continues — it is perhaps more frequent than in the pre- 
ceding month, but there has been little other disease, excepting 
chest affections in the cold weather. Influenza has assumed a 
still milder character. 
November. — The early part of this month was frosty, the 
latter rainy, but temperate — occasionally windy. Many cases 
of gastritis and enteritis have occurred. Grease has been in 
abundance — pneumonia prevalent. Influenza still loiters, but is 
seldom dangerous now. 
December. — Much rain occasionally, and the mornings often 
frosty. Influenza again in abundance, and of a somewhat more 
serious character, with fever of a congestive nature; yet, on 
the whole, not many deaths. The latter part of the month 
was stormy, and suddenly changed to snow and cold. Then 
came bronchitis, but not very frequent, nor of a fearful character. 
Some few affections of the abdominal viscera, producing violent 
diarrhoea and a state of collapse, have been observed ; and in more 
than one instance have proved fatal, the animal sinking rapidly 
from inanition and exhaustion. 
APHTHAE IN SHEEP. 
By Mr. Rawlijngs, of Bristol. 
The following is a novel, interesting, and severe disease in 
a flock of ewes and lambs, and the mode of treatment used in its 
cure, as communicated to the Bristol Agricultural Society, 
at its annual meeting and exhibition in December last. 
In the month of May, 1836, I was sent for to see the abov£ 
flock, at Mr. Charles Marshall’s, Snovvshill, near Broadway, 
Worcestershire, who had lost several ewes and lambs previous to 
my seeing them. 
I found seventy lambs in a most emaciated state, scarcely 
abie to move : their mouths presented a mass of disease, being 
one complete ulcer. 
On examination, I found a large fungus issuing from all 
around the lower gum, enveloping the teeth, and protruding 
over the lip to a very considerable extent. 
There were about thirty still more or less affected. The disease 
clearly originated in the lower gum, and, when it was matured to 
any extent, the ewes refused to allow the lamb to suck, and it 
gradually pined away. 
At this stage of the disease the lamb communicates it to the 
ewe’s udder. As soon as she is affected, she begins to lose 
