728 DEPRAVED APPETITE, FOOT-ROT, 
been very prevalent, and which I attribute to the unusual wetness 
of the season. My mode of treatment differs but little from that 
which you have recommended, except in some minutiae, which, 
however, I have occasionally found of considerable consequence. 
I bring them into a dry fold-yard, or barn, wash the feet with soap 
and water, and then rub them dry. I particularly rub them well 
between the claws with a soft brush that I have for the purpose, 
and which is preferable to a cloth. I then remove with a knife 
every horny excrescence that may be growing between the claws, 
and conclude with the application of the butyr of antimony. 
More than half the cure depends upon the thorough paring out of 
the foot. I am, at this time, attending a two-year-old tup that I 
was obliged to poultice, and to bleed, and to physic for a long time, 
but we are conquering the disease. 
Sore heads have been very common this summer, especially in 
woody districts. The sheep strike their heads with their hind feet 
until a wound is produced, and, if no remedy is applied to this, it 
soon becomes not only troublesome but dangerous. I usually take 
equal parts of tar and sulphur, and apply it to the part warm, 
putting either a thin leathern cap or a little short wool upon the 
head. This mode of treatment seldom fails, but still I do not quite 
like it. Will you give me your opinion 1 
[Accumulations of sand and gravel have been found in the sto- 
machs of horses and cattle, and have occasionally destroyed 
these animals. The patients had been pastured in, or had fre- 
quent access to, meadows through which very shallow streams 
of water flowed, and the horse, or the ox, was obliged to put his 
lips within a little distance of, or close to, the gravelly bottom 
every time he drank. A small portion of the sand would be 
drawn up with the water, and find its way into the stomach. 
There it would gradually accumulate, and produce a great deal 
of irritation, and sad inflammation would ensue, and destroy the 
animal. 
Mr. Gutteridge’s case, however, is a very different one. Some 
sheep are turned into a field of turnips. They have not been 
there more than a few days, before the flanks heave, the appe- 
tite is gone, and several of them die. On opening the carcasses 
the rumen, and the abomasum, and the whole intestinal canal, 
are found loaded with sand. 
The irritation caused by the sand through the whole or a 
certain part of the intestinal canal, was, doubtless, the cause of 
death; but how came the sand there! The sheep had eaten too 
plentifully of the turnips. There had been considerable extrica- 
tion of acid gas, or the development of an acid principle, in the 
intestinal canal, and the earth they swallowed was taken by them, 
