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THE ROT IN TWO SHEEP. 
iii every point of view. They prove that the rot may be arrested 
in its most advanced stage ; and that the hydatids, and flukes, 
and other entozoa, are altogether independent of it, and must not 
be confounded with it. We every day kill sheep which have 
hydatids, or flukes, or other entozoa, without a single symptom 
of the rot. 
The tubercles in the spleen must not be overlooked. This is 
the first recorded case of their existence in the spleen of the 
sheep. We have also seen them in that of the hog. 
The pulmonary lesion had not hitherto been described : the 
interlobular infiltration, with the tubercular growth, — may these 
be identical affections ? 
That which is interesting in the highest degree, is the presence 
of a fluke in one of the branches of the vena portse. Andral is 
the only one who has noticed this fact, and he speaks of hydatids 
in the pulmonary veins. 
Although much has been written on the disease termed “ the 
rot,” it is important still more to distinguish it from other mala- 
dies with which it has been confounded, and particularly with 
relation to its treatment. It is produced by a kind of miasmatic 
empoisonment, imbibed through the medium of the lungs, which 
offer a surface twice as extensive as that of the external integu- 
ment, and are continually traversed by elastic fluids of various 
characters, and particularly by the gases extricated from decom- 
posing animal and vegetable matters. 
Journal des Sciences Zoo'iatriques, Mai 1836. 
[We insert this paper, not on account of any great intrinsic 
excellence which it possesses, but because it has reference to that 
pest of the ovine race, the rot. Kina was the name that used to 
be given to a species of the cinchona cordifolia, the common pale 
bark. The medicine that can arrest the progress of such a disease 
as the rot must possess great tonic power, and bark is one of the 
ingredients in all the legitimate and empirical medicines adminis- 
tered for the cure of the rot ; but to give half an ounce or an 
ounce of bark to a sheep daily for two whole months — there would 
be no little trouble and no inconsiderable expence attending such 
a lengthened process, and approximating too nearly to the value of 
the sheep; unless, indeed, the bark of the white willow were substi- 
tuted for that of the cinchona, and of whose tonic and astrin- 
gent properties it participates in a very considerable degree. — Y.] 
A List of the Pupils who have obtained their Di- 
plomas at the Royal Veterinary College since 
the last Report. 
August 18. — Mr. A. Wood, Arundel, Sussex. 
Mr. W. Butler, Coleshill, Warwick. 
Mr. John Martin, Newbury, Berks. 
