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Mr. Youatt stated that one of the remedial means, and some¬ 
times the only one used in the west, was by continual milking, to 
endeavour to restore the flow of milk, and, that once established, 
the animal was safe. 
Mr. Field thought he had seen something like it in sheep. 
In his own flock eight out of twenty ewes, in high condition, had 
perished in yearning, ora little before the time of parturition. They 
would separate themselves from the rest, reel, fall, and soon die. 
The whole of the cellular membrane was highly injected, the 
muscles had a peculiar yellow appearance, and the carcase soon 
became putrid. 
A gentleman present said he was accustomed to sheep, and 
had not seen any thing like it among them. 
Mr. King believed it to be peculiar to the cow. 
Mr. Y ouatt stated that it occured as frequently, or more fre¬ 
quently, among sheep, and was even more fatal. He requested 
any gentleman accustomed to sheep to recollect whether they 
had not frequently found one or two or more ewes, apparently 
well on the preceding day, down, paralytic, dying, or dead the 
morning or the morning but one after lambing. He likewise de¬ 
nied that constipation was a uniform early symptom: he had seen 
diarrhoea, running on to tenesmus. 
Mr. Field would throw out a hint, how far this disease might be 
connected with rheumatism. Tympanitis was not uncommon 
after superpurgation. 
Mr. Goodwin lamented that the Society was left to decide be¬ 
tween the perfectly opposed opinions of two gentlemen whose 
attention had been particularly directed to cattle.° 
Mr. Y ouatt replied, that the difference between himself and 
Mr. King regarded principally the theory of the disease : as to 
practice, they nearly-coincided. Mr. King stated that he was 
seldom called in until the animal was down, and had begun to 
swell. Whatever Mr. Youatt thought of the inflammatory origin 
of the disease, he doubted whether lie should then bleed. A free 
action of the bowels it was necessary to keep up, and stimulants, 
under the form of gentian, ginger, aniseed, were plainly indi¬ 
cated ; housing and warmth. 
Mr. Field related a case in which the cow was down, breathing 
with difficulty, pulse 66. He gave wine and water, and evacu¬ 
ated the bowels; the pulse rose and he bled : she began to sink, 
and in three hours she died. There was considerable extravasa¬ 
tion in the bronchial passages. 
The hour for closing the debate was now arrived, and the 
Society adjourned. 
