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ON HYDATIDS IN THE SHEEP. 
ears out of the socket, for the result was, that in about two days 
the sheep had rejoined the flock. Since that occurrence I have 
made it a rule constantly to pull the ears very hard for some time 
before I cut them off; and this proceeding has seldom failed of 
effecting a cure.” This is far too brutal and barbarous for you 
and me; although 1 can easily imagine, that in the dieacdul 
struggle which must, ensue in wringing the ears so “ very hard, 
and then cutting them off, the cyst will probably be ruptured, 
and the hydatid destroyed ; but the sheep would stand no little 
chance of being permanently injured, and I would rather send it 
to the butcher at once. 
Others effect the same object in as brutal a way. they set the 
doc on the poor sheep, to hunt and worry it without mercy; and. 
the 1 chase is so contrived, that, if possible, the sheep shall tumble 
down some stone-pit or considerable declivity, and in the shock 
of the fall the hydatid is burst, and now and then the neck of 
the sheep is broken too. . 
Two cases are gravely related in confirmation of this practice; 
that a sturdied sheep was frightened by a pack of hounds that 
came into the field in which it was grazing, and that it immedi¬ 
ately leaped over a high hedge, and was afterwards well; and 
another sheep was standing on the edge of a precipice, and fe 
down and broke the hydatid, as was supposed, and was ever af¬ 
terwards free from the disease. 
Other Remedies .— Neither Mr. Lawrences waim-bath, noi 
the mercurial friction, nor the repeated doses of physic recom¬ 
mended by others, although having a more surgical appearance, 
could have any effect on a disease like this. 
Perforation through the Nose. —Mr. James Hogg, the Lttiick 
shepherd, used to practise a very ingenious operation. He shall 
speak for himself :—“ When I was a youth, .1 was engaged for 
many years in herding a large parcel of lambs, wtiose bleating 
brought the whole sturdies of the neighbourhood to them, with 
which I was everlastingly plagued; but, as I was frequently 
weaving stockings, I fell upon the following plan: I catched 
every sturdied sheep that I could lay my hands on, and probed 
them up through the brain and nostrils with one of my wiies ; 
when I beheld, with no small degree of pleasure, that by this 
simple operation alone I cured many a sheep to different owners; 
all which projects I kept to myself, having no authority to try 
my skill on any of them ; and it was several years before 1 failed 
in any one instance.” This is saying a great deal foi the opera¬ 
tion, which he describes more particularly in another place. 
“ The operator must feel for the part of the skull that is soft, and 
lay his thumb flat and firm upon that; then, taking the wire in 
