APOPLEXY IN SWINE. 
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if in their last throes. A shepherd of Traquair one day found a 
number of his sheep intoxicated in this way, and, thinking that 
they were at the point of death, he cut the throats of four of 
them, that their flesh might not be lost; and he would have dis¬ 
patched them all, if his master had not opportunely arrived, and 
abused him for a blockhead, and asked him how he would like it 
if people were to cut his throat when he was drunk 
Treatment .—Whenever a sheep is found lagging behind, stand¬ 
ing still if he can, and with his head down, stupid, half blind, 
and half deaf, he should be bled. No harm could ever ensue 
from this, and many an animal would be saved. It is a bad 
practice when the dead sheep are the shepherd’s perquisite. I 
will not say that he will be purposely blind ; but he will not 
have the stimulus to careful observation, which a regular per¬ 
quisite for the detection of these incipient and obscure diseases 
would afford. 
Bleeding .—This is the first measure, and to the extent which 
the case may indicate or that the animal will bear. I should 
take a pound as about the average quantity that should be drawn 
at the first bleeding; and that not taken from the eye-vein—the 
vessel usually opened by the shepherd and by the farrier too— 
for the most adroit of them cannot always obtain any great quan¬ 
tity of blood from this vein, and seldom can they obtain it so 
rapidly as it should be drawn ; it should be drawn from the 
jugular, a vessel quite as easily opened, and from which the blood 
will flow in a much fuller stream. 
Physicy ^'c.—Five ounces of Epsom salts should be admi¬ 
nistered as soon as possible after file bleeding, and an addi¬ 
tional ounce every six hours, until the bowels are opened. The 
animals should be moved to thinner pasture, or perhaps taken 
into the farm-yard and most sparingly fed. 
Apoplexy in the Dog. 
I have never seen a case of true apoplexy, either serous or 
sanguineous, in the dog. Almost every cerebral affection in this 
animal takes on the character of epilepsy. There is increased 
excitement, rather than depression. The pathological reason for 
this I am unable to give. 
Apoplexy in Swine. 
In an animal fed to be ‘‘as fat as a bacon hog,” you may 
expect that cases of apoplexy will be frequent enough ; and so 
they arc, and characterized by the same suddenness of attack 
