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flesh most rapidly ; the udder becomes tumefied. In some of 
the extreme cases the udder suppurated, and parts of it, with one 
or both teats, sloughed, and the ewe was rendered useless for a 
stock ewe. 
My first object was to get the flock separated ; those severely 
affected, both ewes and lambs, from those less so ; and to keep 
the sound ones in a distant field. 
The disease being contagious, by carefully attending to this 
plan, and examining the flock, and removing those that became 
affected, and using the following detergent dressing, I succeeded 
in curing the whole. R Mel acetat. Ibss., aluminis ust. 3vj, 
cupr. vitriol 3'ij : apply it every morning to the affected part. 
Mr. Hyatt, at the adjoining farm, had his flock also affected, 
but did not allow it to progress ; and by using the same means, 
his flock soon got well. 
I have made every inquiry on the Cotswold Hills, and find 
no one ever saw in ewes and lambs any disease like it before. 
One farmer at Radstock, in Somersetshire, said that, many 
years ago, in their neighbourhood he knew a similar disease, 
and it proved very fatal. 
I have lately been at Mr. Charles Marshall’s, Snowshill. 
I examined the whole of the flock. The lambs were quite well, 
but much less in size than those that had not been affected. 
The ewes, about twenty in number, whose udders sloughed, 
were most of them fatted and gone to the butcher. 
VENTRAL HERNIA, WITH OPENING INTO THE 
COLON. 
By Mr. Karkeek, of Truro. 
My dear Youatt, 
I have great pleasure in sending you the following interesting 
case for The Veterinarian. 
Ten years since a pony mare received an injury from the hom 
of a bullock on that portion of the abdomen situated between 
the cartilages of the false ribs, inclining a little to the left side, 
producing a ventral hernia , about the size of a cricket-ball. 
About the middle of December last a rascally boy kicked the 
mare with the toe of his shoe directly on the ruptured part. This 
produced a very serious injury, and a blacksmith in the neigh- 
bourhood was employed to attend to the case. After a week’s 
attendance, he managed, some way or other, to get an opening 
through the lacerated muscles into the colon itself — being that 
portion of its second flexure which forms the upper and anterior 
