HOT IN SHEEP. 
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his theory of the sympathies by which the viscera are connected 
together.* Thanks to the amateur veterinarian ! Without him, 
miserable pupils of our schools! you would not have emerged 
from the profound mire in which your masters, Chabert, and 
Huzard, and Dupuy, and Girard had plunged you!! What 
conciseness ! what logic ! 
Inflammatory appearances are wanting, or rather appear to be 
so ; “ but because they are obscure, they are not the less valuable 
indices in revealing the nature of the malady.” Do you under¬ 
stand, reader ? 
“ A serous fluid cannot accumulate without an organic modi¬ 
fication, which will increase the exhalent function of the tissue; 
and that modification cannot be any thing else than the effect of 
irritation.” Certainly, unless he be a metaphysician, it is im¬ 
possible for any one to think otherwise. 
The serous fluids in the great splanchnic cavities come from 
the serous membranes. M. Hurtrel D’Arboval says the same. 
Then it would seem natural for him to place the original seat of 
rot in the pleura or the peritoneum, &c. Not at all—listen ! 
u The inflammation, the symptoms of which are so fugitive, did 
not affect the serous membranes primarily; it was only by the 
power of sympathy that it reached them, and, afterwards, the 
cellular tissue. The primitive inflammation was one of the mu¬ 
cous membrane of the gastro-intestinal canal. It had after¬ 
wards a sympathetic reaction on the liver, then on the viscera 
enveloped by serous membranes, and at length on the serous 
membranes themselves.” 
Messieurs officers of cavalry! proprietors! farmers! cultir 
vators ! remember well what this writer, who has dedicated to you 
his book, is saying to you; but do not ask any improper ques¬ 
tion ! ! If, in the living animal, or in the opening of the dead 
one, you do not meet with these marks of inflammation which 
this eloquent and most learned physiologist describes, the in¬ 
flammation does not, on that account, the less exist—the author 
assures you that it does exist, and that is quite sufficient. 
If M. Huzard could have known the doctrine of which 
M. Hurtrel has constituted himself the champion, he would not 
have committed the sad fault of ranking the rot among the num¬ 
ber of asthenic diseases. 
u Debility is the consequence of inflammation rapidly become 
chronic.” You did not know that there was inflammation—you 
went blunderingly to work; M. d’Arboval is a much cleverer 
person—he perceived it, without there being any thing to indi¬ 
cate its existence. We shall see, by and by, how he cures this 
inflammation in his rotted sheep. 
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