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the stomachs to the liver, the desired effects are To a certain 
extent counteracted ; so that all the boasted cures that have 
from time to time been preached to the public, when fairly 
tested have, as yet, proved fruitless. However, a great deal 
may be done to relieve the affected animals by giving good, 
wholesome, dry, nutritious food and warm shelter, combined 
with suitable matters that will assist to fortify the system 
against the inroads of the disease, and tide them over the 
period that the fluke naturally infests them. But this we 
would only recommend in the case of breeding ewes, which are 
on many occasions only observed to be affected with the 
malady when they commence to lamb, by the foetus and its 
membranes being in a soft, watery, bleached condition. In 
other classes of sheep, immediately the complaint is noticed 
we would suggest sending to the butcher, for all cases that 
have passed through the courses of the malady make little 
4 or no progress during the summer, and it is a well-known 
fact ampng flock masters that two or three frosty nights 
prove fatal to such animals. 
The following is the treatment I recommended to Mr. John 
Twentyman, of Blennerhasset Farm, who about the first 
week in August last year sent 65 sheep to graze on an out¬ 
lying pasture he had taken for the season, and where they 
remained till the middle of September, when he brought 
them to the -home farm at Blennerhasset. Shortly before 
Christmas they were observed to be doing badly; wool 
clapped down to the body and anything but healthy. On the 
6th January one was killed when flukes were found in the 
liver. Mr. Twentyman was very much surprised at this, as 
he had no rot-producing land on his farm, he consulted me 
upon the matter, and the 65 sheep were put under treatment 
when sulphur, tar, turpentine, assafcetida, camphor, phenyle, 
