PALSY IN SHEEP. 
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Mr. Garland, in the first volume of The Veterinarian, 
describes this infantile palsy, if I may so call it, in the lamb. 
He says that ‘‘three lambs were dropped on the 2f3d of March, 
without any assistance. In each there was a complete loss of 
motion on the left side. They lay quietly on the affected side, 
but when lifted up, and thrown on the opposite side, their 
struggles were incessant.” This hemiplegia in the lamb, while 
we have little or nothing of it in the horse or the ox, is a circum- 
stance for which I confess that I am unable perfectly to account. 
One thing, however, we know, that the sheep has hydatids 
in the brain far oftener than any other domesticated animal. 
A disposition to the generation or shelter of this parasite in the 
cranial cavity, is one of the pests of the sheep. Were there 
congenital hydatids here? 
Lesson to the Farmer . — In the beginning of the lambing great 
numbers of these animals die from cold. A warm thick hedge 
towards the north, or a temporary shed of hurdles or of faggots, 
however rudely constructed, and ultimately costing little, would 
have afforded almost all the shelter which was required. Well ! 
the farmer feels the consequences of his folly and inhumanity. 
His expected flock of lambs has been materially diminished, and 
he determines to make the most of what remains; but with con- 
sistent want of thought or calculation of consequences, he again 
goes the wrong way to work, and he kills them with kindness : 
for, scarcely recovered from their former debilitated state, he now 
puts them where there is the best flush of grass, and he deci- 
mates them by inflammation. 
Advice to the V eterinarian. — When, gentlemen, you begin to 
be consulted, as you will ere long, with respect to the diseases 
and the general management of all domesticated animals, your 
inquiries into the nature and causes of disease will enable you 
to give your employer many a valuable hint, and, by diminishing 
the casualties to which his live stock is exposed, you will mate- 
rially lessen the aggregate of distress. 
Treatment . — Well, gentlemen, there is a little art in treating 
these poor palsied beings, and especially the young ones ; for 
although they resist the. cold longer than the adult animal, yet 
they have not strength to bear the re-action which follows when 
the vital heat once more begins to be produced. The means 
of relief are simple, but should be cautiously applied. The 
little patient may be put into a hamper, and carried home, 
wrapped up in straw, and thus the little portion of warmth 
which yet continues to be eliminated will not be dispersed. After 
awhile he may be brought, but very cautiously, into .a warm 
room, or placed at some distance from the fire: a little warm 
