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filth, acting upon the mucous membranes of these animals, already 
highly predisposed to inflammatory action, partly produce the 
disease in sheep I have described (cystitis), accompanied with 
enteritis at times? At all events, this deserves some attention. 
Bleeding . — It is not uncommon, when the opinion of the vete- 
rinarian is sought for in any disease raging among sheep, for his 
assertion to be made, that they have all been bled. It is true 
that the attempt has been made, and succeeded in some cases; 
but no definite quantity has been abstracted : the usual place 
is the face, and sometimes a few ounces are taken — in others, not 
so many drops. Would it not be better, no doubt more certain, to 
bleed them at once from the jugular, or some leading vessel? for, 
in such cases as those now related, nothing short of excessive de- 
pletion will be of service : probably there is no other case on record 
of a sheep having lost five pints of blood in thirty hours. To 
that alone do I date the recovery of my patient. 
OBITUARY. 
An erroneous account of 'the death of one of our veterinary 
brethren having been inserted in some of the midland papers, 
we avail ourselves of the kindness of Mr. Wetherall to give a 
more correct statement of the case t 
Mr. Marriott, of Spalding, was attending a young mare labour- 
ing under ophthalmia. He was making a necessary but painful 
application to the eye, when she reared and struck him on the 
temples, and caused his instantaneous death. He was a well- 
conducted young man, and his kindness to a widowed mother 
was highly creditable. 
Some benevolent individuals have attempted to establish a 
fund for the relief of the families of our deceased brethren. It 
would be a noble object, and will, we trust, ere long be esta- 
blished to its fullest extent. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Fecundity in a Cow. 
A cow, the property of Mr. J. Gibson, of Thorpe on the Hill, 
last week yeaned her twentieth calf, the mother being but twenty- 
one years old. She has never had twins. As a proof that nature 
amply provided her with the means of sustaining and raising so 
numerous a progeny, she was milked regularly, for ten years, 
two and often three times every day. Her stock have invariably 
