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CONSULTATIONS. 
Reply. 
This is a case of disease, either of the molar teeth or of the 
membrane lining some of the sinuses of the nose, attended by a 
thickening and partial closing of the nostril, with irregular discharge 
of foetid matter. If, on examination, the disease is referrible to 
the teeth, the decayed one must be extracted ; if the nose, the 
sinus must be opened and injected, first with warm water, and 
afterwards with some gentle astringent wash, as the lime lotion. 
W. Dick. 
No. VIII 
Inflammation of the Womb in Ewes after Lambing. 
Dear Sir, — As a reader of your work on Sheep, and a con- 
stant subscriber to your periodical, I have taken the liberty of 
addressing this note to you, on a subject of great importance to 
flock-masters and to the public. 
The disease that I am about to solicit your opinion upon is 
heaving, and inflammation of the womb, after having given birth 
to their lambs. 
I find, in your work on Sheep, that you recommend bleeding 
and Epsom salts; to both of which I have given a fair trial, and 
I am sorry to say that we have not been successful in a single case. 
We are losing, at this time, twenty per cent. The attack commences 
from six to thirty hours after parturition; and, including those who 
have experienced a difficult labour, and others who have given 
birth to their lambs without any assistance. 
The symptoms when first noticed are, continually shifting their 
posture — -lying down and getting up again immediately — the ears 
hanging down — the eyes looking dull. Sometimes partial or almost 
universal palsy ensues, and mortification of the womb terminates 
the poor animal’s sufferings. 
I have tried bleeding a few days previous to their lambing, and 
immediately after parturition, but neither did any good. The sheep 
are not in high or low condition ; some of them have been living 
on Swedes and some on white turnips, and they have never had 
an over quantity. The turnips are very good for the season, with- 
out much green top. They have also, at times, had salted hay. 
When we first began to lose them, we attributed it to the north- 
east wind and the quantity of snow that fell at the time ; but we 
were wrong in this, for we are losing them now that the wind is 
south-west. 
I am, &c. 
