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CONSULTATIONS, NO. XX. 
Reply. 
1, Osnaburgh Place, New Road, 
6 March, 1841. 
My dear Sir, 
I fear that my reply may not be quite satisfactory to you ; 
yet I have not much doubt as to the cause of the mortality 
among the ewes of your employer. 
I have been accustomed to trace a great deal of this mischief 
to the condition — the too good condition — of the ewes. You tell 
me that they are “ in a rich elevated park, and allowed good hay, 
and that the best of them are the first and worst attacked.” It 
is true that the “ feeding is short;” but there is good hay added 
to this “ rich” although “short” feeding; and there is the 
general belief among the best flock-masters that few things are 
more dangerous to a ewe pregnant and near her time than any, 
even the least, increased quantity of stimulating food. 
Then you tell me that the dura mater was evidently affected, 
and the brain a little softened, and the parenchymatous sub- 
stance of the lungs filled with thousands of minute round, red, 
or yellow spots, containing blood, or yellow serum, or pus. 
My advice is very short. Change the pasture, and lessen the 
quantity of hay. 
I am, my dear Sir, faithfully your’s, 
W. Youatt. 
ON THE USE OF THE PULVIS ANTIMONIALIS. 
By R. B. S win fen, Esq., M.R.C.S. , Leicester. 
Sir, — Feeling a pleasure and deriving much information from 
the reading of works on veterinary medicine and pathology, and, 
among others, that valuable monthly periodical, Th e Veterina- 
rian, so ably conducted by yourself — I was led, in taking up a 
late number, for June last, to read some remarks on a case of 
Hepatitis in a terrier, attended by Mr. Rolfe, which I should have 
passed over in silence had it not been that your sanction is given 
in a note. How far the treatment was good or bad, it is not my 
purpose to question ; but I am anxious that the profession should 
know your reasons for approving of the use of the Pulvis Anti- 
monialis — a preparation which is now expunged from the London 
Pharmacopoeia, and has long been held by discerning practi- 
tioners as perfectly inert and innocuous in its medical properties. 
