THE TREATMENT OF CYSTITIS IN SHEEP. 
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safe and legal. As the race in the present case was not actually 
run, the Court could not presume that if it had taken place it 
would have been attended with such a want of precaution as to 
lead to any injury or inconvenience to the public, and especially 
as the match was not a galloping but a trotting match, in which 
the speed of the animals engaged would, of course, be much less 
than in the former case. The question, therefore, must finally be 
decided upon the consideration of the 18th George II, chap. 34, 
sec. 11 , which allows, with certain limitations, races of every kind 
to be run in any place whatever throughout England. In con- 
struing these latter expressions Lord Eldon had been of opinion 
that they were not to be limited to those places where it had been 
usual to run races before, but that it extended to all places over 
England where the running of a race would not be otherwise 
illegal or exceptionable. He (Mr. Justice Coleridge) adopted this 
construction, and was therefore of opinion that the wager was not 
illegal, that the deposit was forfeited, that the plaintiff was not 
entitled to recover, and that the rule must be therefore absolute. 
THE TREATMENT OF CYSTITIS IN SHEEP. 
By Mr. C. Dickens, Kimbolton. 
The case of rupture of the bladder in two tups, as reported by 
Mr. Tindal in your April number, page 150, calls to my mind 
a case or two not very dissimilar that came under my notice in 
June last : should you deem them of sufficient interest to claim 
a page in your Journal, they are at your service. 
June 18^/i. — I was requested to look at a remarkably fine 
sheep of the Southdown breed, the property of the Duke of 
Manchester, and cannot describe his first appearance better than 
by using the language of Mr. T , and say, that I found the 
beautiful animal very uneasy, constantly shifting his hind legs, 
and frequently straining as if to void his urine. He was stiff and 
unwilling to move. His bowels were constipated, and evinced 
considerable tenderness if pressure was made on the abdomen. 
The shepherd had bled him — he was ordered a cathartic draught 
accompanied by an opiate ; but no amendment taking place he 
was slaughtered, and I had an opportunity of seeing the progress 
of the disease. The intestines were inflamed slightly — the 
kidneys more so ; but the greater degree of mischief presented 
itself in the bladder, which was quite full, and very highly in- 
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