162 ON THE LOUPING-ILI, „IN SHEEP. 
with food of the latter quality, such as whey or gruel mixed with 
bran. 
24zfA. — I found the six that had had the emetics considerably 
better, and the medicine was still acting on the bowels. I there- 
fore ordered the same prescription to the remainder ; after which 
was given night and morning for several days, hyd. potas. gr. iij, 
with occasional small doses of sulphate of magnesia if at any time 
the bowels became constipated. A liniment of lyttae et ol. lini 
was daily rubbed on the parotid glands and trachea, until an irrita- 
tion was created on the skin of that part of the neck. 
By this mode of treatment the disease was subdued, and in a 
short time the animals became convalescent. 
I ought to have stated, that the affection was entirely confined to 
Mr. H.’s store pigs, and that they ran at large over his estate ; and 
also, that he had six or eight fat pigs, which were confined to the 
piggery, and which fed out of the same troughs as the store pigs, 
that were quite exempt from the malady. What was the probable 
cause of this disease 1 Was it an epizootic attack ? or did it arise 
from any thing eaten on the farm] 
[Will some of our readers, best acquainted with the diseases of 
pigs, kindly take up this subject? — Y.] 
ON THE LOUPING-ILL IN SHEEP. 
By JAMES Fair, Esq. Lanstruther, Southdean, Roxburgh. 
In answer to your inquiries respecting a very prevalent disease 
among sheep in this district, called “ Louping-Ill ,” the following 
are the prominent symptoms of that, hitherto, incurable and very 
destructive malady. 
On the animal’s being slightly attacked, there is an evident fall- 
ing off in condition, and he exhibits a dull heavy appearance, with 
what may be called a deadness of coat. There is a loss of power 
in one or more limbs, and sometimes of a whole side, or, even the 
whole of the animal, as if struck with palsy or tetanus, of both 
which diseases, as well as apoplexy, it seems to participate in no 
slight degree : the head and neck being more or less frequently, 
according to the violence of the attack, convulsively or spasmodi- 
cally contracted or drawn towards the shoulder or back, with a 
violent tremor, and constriction of the oesophagus, so as to endanger 
suffocation when any liquid, however small the quantity, is at- 
tempted to be conveyed into the stomach. This is also much re- 
tarded, or prevented from being accomplished, by a convulsive and 
