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character, and that they submit themselves more readily to the 
yoke. 
The fourth memoir treats of redwater in cattle. The causes 
and the treatment are well described, but the latter is not always 
successful, because the patients are too often entrusted to the 
empiric. 
The grand silver medal of the society was awarded to MM. 
Blavette and Drouard. 
6. M. Roche Lubin, V.S. of Rodez, sent three memoirs. The 
first was on the non-contagion of foot-rot- in sheep. The facts 
which he states are few in number, and not as yet sufficiently 
conclusive. It is, however, an important subject, on which the 
society trusted that M. R. L. would continue his experiments. 
The second memoir contained a description of a most fatal 
inflammation of the uterus which he had observed in a flock of 
180 ewes. It was evidently plethora caused by a sudden transi- 
tion from poor and insufficient to abundant and nutritive food. 
Sixty of them had been attacked when he arrived, and thirty had 
died : eleven had been killed, mortification having evidently 
taken place, and nine died afterwards — one of them immedi- 
ately after yeaning. All the others were submitted to a severe an- 
tiphlogistic treatment. They were bled and physicked and clys- 
tered, and they all got well. Eight lambs that were produced by 
mothers that died after lambing were lost. The sheep that es- 
caped all attack of the disease were submitted to a precautionary 
system of treatment, and not one of them was lost ; indeed, they 
have been able to nurse the lambs of those that died, and they 
yielded a considerable quantity of milk for cheese. 
The third memoir contained a description of an epizootic pneu- 
monia, which destroyed a great many sheep in the winter of 
1836 in Saint Affrique. This malady, the nature and treatment 
of which cannot be too clearly explained to the sheep-farmer, is 
produced by the long continuance of the sheep during the winter 
in small and ill-ventilated sheep-houses, where the floor is covered 
by a thick dung-heap, seldom removed, and highly infectious ; 
and also by a sudden change from the heated air of these sheep- 
houses to the cold air without, in order to drink of the half- 
frozen water, which the thirst under which they labour induces 
them to take with avidity, and in a great quantity. Too many 
sheep became diseased from this cause. The difficulty of 
submitting them separately to a methodical treatment — the mea- 
sures adopted before the arrival of the veterinarian, in conse- 
quence of the advice of empirics and charlatans — and the igno- 
rance and the superstition of the farmers themselves, are cir- 
cumstances that have induced a mortality discouraging to the 
