66 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
Symptoms. —There are few premonitory symptoms in these 
cases. T]}e animal is struck all at once. The disease is termed 
blood-striking. Had he been closely observed, it might have 
been perceived that he was more than usually indisposed to 
move, that the breathing was a little laborious, and the eye 
somewhat protruding: but the herdsman takes no notice of trifles 
like these ; the animal seems to him to be struck all at once; he falls, 
breathes stertorously and heavily, struggles with greater or less 
violence, and dies, sometimes in five minutes—oftener at the 
expiration of a few hours. 
Remedial Measures. —If we had time to do any thing, we should 
bleed ; we should here, as well as in the horse, abstract as much 
blood as we can. To this should succeed a dose of physic. The 
Epsom salts are the best we can give, in doses of a pound and a 
half in such a case as this, and without any carminative, and 
followed up by doses of half a pound every two hours, until the 
physic operates; its action should then be maintained by half- 
pound doses of sulphur every morning. 
Apoplexy in Sheep. 
This disease is more prevalent and more fatal in the sheep 
than in the ox. I will suppose a flock of sheep, apparently in 
perfect health, grazing on a pasture somewhat too luxuriant; 
they have been lately put upon it; they perhaps have been driven 
a little distance to it, and the weather is hot; or I will merely 
suppose that the pasture is good and the sheep in high condition. 
All at once, one of them stands still; he remains as if he were 
fixed ; he is unconscious of every thing about him : by and by he 
begins to stagger, he falls, he struggles, usually not much, and 
he dies; and all this takes place in less than a quarter of an 
hour. 
Premonitory Symptoms. —Here too, if the looker had done his 
duty, he would have been aware of what was coming. He would 
have seen that the sheep was dull, that it lagged behind in the 
flock, that its flanks heaved, and that rumination had ceased. 
Then we might have had some chance of subduing the disease; 
but none in the world afterwards. 
Mr. Hogg, in his treatise on sheep, says, that such as feed in 
woods are subject to temporary fits of the staggers, appearing as 
if intoxicated; but they soon recover, except they are harassed 
or driven, or exposed to sudden exertion, or are previously full of 
blood. In his opinion, ‘‘ nothing induces this temporary stupor 
more than a hearty feed on broom in frosty weather, and which so 
overpowers them, that they will lie sprawling for several hours as 
