AMONG SIIEEP IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 
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exposed to a cold, chilly, variable atmosphere, with rain or snow ; 
the animals being more predisposed to the disease by dry food, 
and being: bred “in-and-in. ” 
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Concluding Observations. 
Catarrh among sheep, that is, in the form of what is called 
common catarrh, is not uncommon either in this colony or in 
Europe. But the appearance of this severer form of catarrh, 
the epidemic catarrh or influenza, in which the inflammatory 
symptoms are more increased than in the common form of the 
disease, I regard as novel, and am not aware that it has ever 
before appeared as an epidemic among sheep. 
Before concluding this Report I may be allowed to recommend 
to the sheep proprietor, that salt may be given to the sheep 
regularly, and in small quantities : it tends to strengthen the 
digestive organs, promotes secretion of bile, and is favourable to 
their general health. 1 recollect reading from some work, and 
making an extract in my note bo8k at the time, that a gentle- 
man resident in the county of Cumberland, in England, employed 
salt among his live stock daily for many years. 
For Horses he gave 
Milch Cows . 
Feeding Oxen 
Yearlings 
Calves . . 
Sheen . . 
t 
. G oz. 
per day 
. 4 
ditto 
. G 
ditto 
. 3 
ditto 
. 1 
ditto 
4 per week 
if on dry pastures; but if they are feeding on turnips, &c., then 
they should have it more freely. Some give it to live stock 
on a slate or stone, and others lay lumps of it in the cribs or 
mangers. Many consider that if sheep are allowed free access 
to salt they will never be subject to a variety of diseases; 
and others, again, believe that it may even prove a cure for that 
formidable disease, which is considered to proceed from a worm 
of the class Entozoa; the Fasciola hepatica of Linnseus — Distoma 
hepaticum of Abildgaard, and which has received the common 
appellation of the Liver Fluke. 
In concluding this Report, I may observe, that, in giving direc- 
tions for the treatment of any disease, whether found existing 
among human beings or the brute creation, the judgment of the 
practitioner must be always called into action ; the habits and 
constitution of the patient under treatment ought to be minutely 
studied, and the practice should be modified according to these ob- 
servations, whether the symptoms of the disease assume a severe 
