ON THE FOOT-ROT IN SHEET. 
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these very paintings, as they lay upon the table in his drawing¬ 
room, on the occasion before alluded to, of many friends, with 
myself, being assembled at his house, on the last Saturday but two 
of his life. 
Sic transit gloria mundi! 
Mr. Field had completed the thirty-ninth year of his age. He 
was a pupil at the College in the year 1818, obtained his diploma in 
1820, and since then has been uninterruptedly engaged in private 
practice. His remains were interred on the 19th ult., at Mary-le- 
Bone church. They were followed to the grave by his relatives 
alone. Many are the professional and other friends of the deceased 
who most willingly would, by their presence, have paid their last 
mark of love and attachment to him; but it was his desire that the 
funeral attendants should be restricted to his own family. 
Requiescat in pace! 
P. 
ON THE FOOT-ROT IN SHEEP. 
By Mr. Robert Read, V.S., Crediton, Devon. 
Dear Sir,—I n the following pages I have attempted to fulfil my 
promise to you some time since, to send you a short paper on the 
foot-rot in sheep. What I have written is from actual observa¬ 
tion, derived from an intimate knowledge of the animal, being from 
my early days bred a farmer, and, now in the middle age of life, 
still connected with farming as well as the veterinary profession. 
The diseases to which I am anxious to direct the attention of 
the profession, through the medium of The VETERINARIAN, are 
those of the sheep, an animal of much worth, of great emolu¬ 
ment to the farmer, and considerably benefitting the soil on which 
he is depastured. I will commence with the cause of that pest of 
the ovine race, the foot-rot, a disease of extensive prevalence in my 
neighbourhood, and on some farms scarcely if ever absent, parti¬ 
cularly if they consist of rich meadow, old pasturage, park lands, 
or meadows situated near towns so as to receive the contents of 
drains and cesspools. Low situations, conjoined with moisture, 
are the fruitful and primary causes of foot-rot. Sheep in these 
situations have their hoofs and the integument above to which 
they are united, and the highly elastic tissue situated between the 
claws, constantly in a wet and liumid state. 
Having to attend and send applications to from fifteen hundred 
to two thousand sheep annually, I have seen it in all its different 
forms and grades. Oo into any of the pasturages before described. 
