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PURENIT1S IN DEER. 
him, looking wistfully round, and nibbling his side near the 
abdomen, as if in violent pain. As I approached he sprung up, 
looked very wildly, made a gurgling noise in the throat, and 
bolted at the top of his speed over and against every thing in his 
course. We pursued him on horseback for a considerable dis¬ 
tance, and when we reached him we found him near a stream of 
water, butting furiously against the ground, foaming at his mouth, 
and apparently endeavouring to drink, but I think he could not. 
As we neared him, he bolted forward again amongst the herd, 
still making this gurgling noise : the herd immediately separated 
in great terror. We still pursued him, and ultimately he was 
ordered to be shot for my inspection; he was accordingly shot 
through the heart from behind the left shoulder. 
I then proceeded to dissect and examine him also, and found 
the appearances much the same, excepting that the membrane 
lining the larynx was not so highly inflamed as in the former 
subject. 
The park has been stocked with deer for Ihe last fifty years, 
so that it cannot be thought that the herbage had any effect. A 
suspicion had arisen that they were poisoned ; but from the 
slight appearance of inflammation in the stomach, I could 
not entertain that opinion, yet I did not analyse the contents 
of the rumen. There were Scotch cattle and sheep grazing 
on the same herbage, but none of these have exhibited the 
slightest symptoms of the disease. 
1 should mention, that the practitioner 1 have spoken of had 
examined many brains previously to my visit, and had found 
them all more or less inflamed. The keeper told me that 
one of the diseased animals had bitten him in the hand. 
ON REDWATER. 
By a Veterinary Surgeon . 
I have long purposed a communication on the disease called 
Redwater; but the truth is, I wished to see your ideas on the 
subject, which I have now in the Farmer’s Series; and, as 1 
rather think you are not quite satisfied as to the nature and 
cause, I am willing to lay before you the way in which I have 
considered the matter; and though it may not advance you much, 
there may be something new in the manner. 
I find redwater is confined to particular farms, and there also 
differing in degree as to frequency, if not as to intensity. That 
it is most prevalent in the months of May and June, but differ¬ 
ing in extent in different seasons, and afterwards brought on by a 
