THE ROT IN TWO SHEEP. 
Two sheep, of four and five years old, were brought to the 
school of Alfort, to become the subjects of experiment. They came 
from a valuable flock, whose numbers had been diminished by a 
malady, which in these sheep had attained its fullest state of 
development. 
They were much emaciated ; their wool came off with the 
slightest touch; their skin was discoloured; the conjunctiva 
pale and without the least trace of bloodvessels ; the mouth pale ; 
no perspiration at the groin ; no appetite ; a constant infiltration 
from a tumour as large as a fist placed under the chin, and 
larger in the morning than at night. 
They were turned into a field of lucern, and powder of kina 
was given to them, suspended in wine, in doses of half an ounce 
every morning, and gradually increased to an ounce. This 
course of treatment continued two months. By degrees they 
regained their strength, they ate with appetite, and they resumed 
their former good condition. The tumour under the chin and 
all the other symptoms progressively disappeared. The wool 
separated from the whole of the body of one of them, seven or 
eight days after we left off giving them the kina. The skin was 
red and warm, but there was no eruption, and very inconsiderable 
itching. It was washed with an infusion of the root of patience : 
the irritation ceased, and the w T ool grew again beautifully. 
This sheep was killed and eaten. Its spleen was a little 
larger than usual, of a light brown colour, and filled with white 
diaphonous tubercles, resembling albumen slightly concreted. 
The .liver contained a great number of hydatids, whose thick, 
fibrous and yellow cysts offered much resistance to the knife. 
Many of them, in the proper cavity of the hydatid cyst, con- 
tained small white granular bodies. A great many flukes were 
also found in the biliary ducts, and one was found in one of the 
divisions of the vena portae. In every other respect the tissue of 
the liver was healthy. 
The lungs presented exteriorly a remarkably pale appearance, 
and on this white ground there were other spots still paler. 
These spots were small cellular emphysemata. 
There were some hydatids between the folds of the epiploon. 
The pulmonary substance, when cut into, exhibited a deep red 
appearance, and was infiltrated by its own proper serosity. It 
contained an immense quantity of miliary tumours, diaphonous 
or red ; a little more consistent than tremulous gelatine, and 
which had Ahe appearance of tubercles in their nascent state. 
There were no vomicae, no bloody congestion. The lungs con- 
tained numerous hydatids, some under the pleura, and others 
deep in the substance of the lungs, and they very much re- 
sembled the hydatids in the liver. These cases are interesting 
