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and he recovered after being a month at grass; and the disease 
being entirely of a chronic nature, the retarding of its progress or 
the abating of its power , and not its immediate removal (the law 
which pretty nearly governs the treatment of all chronic diseases 
and that require time and patience for recovery), must be the main 
object in view; and to do this, uniform and steady applications 
are preferable to those necessary in urgent cases. In the latter, 
intervals of rest would of necessity supervene, to avoid the danger 
of wasting and weakening the animal, and during which a relapse 
might take place, or the powers of nature might be subdued; 
and then the most powerful medicines would have but a se¬ 
condary or perhaps no effect at all. 
SINGULAR TRIAL AS TO THE SOUNDNESS OF SOME LAMBS. 
At the last Norwich Assizes, last week, an action was brought 
by one Everett against a farmer named Youell, to recover da¬ 
mages for the breach of a contract in the sale of fifteen score 
lambs, sold and warranted sound by the defendant to the plan¬ 
tin’. At the last Assizes this case was tried, and a Jury were 
locked up all night, and then they could come to no decision on the 
case. The present Jury was special, and the foreman was John 
Angerstein, Esq., the late High Sheriff for the County. The 
defendant sold several lambs to the plantiff; and a few days after 
one shewed symptoms of the rot, and fifteen died afterwards. 
It was proved that the plantiff’s land was good dry land, and 
several witnesses said the lambs must have had the seeds of the 
disease when sold. On the other hand, it appeared the defen¬ 
dant had sold several lambs of the same sort to other persons, 
and they had not been attacked with the rot. It was contended 
that the plantiff’s lands w^ere calculated to produce the disease. 
After the whole day had been taken up by the evidence, the case 
went to the Jury on the opposite opinions of the witnesses for 
the plaintiff and those for the defendant, all of whom were men 
of experience and respectability. The Jury were locked up the 
whole of the night without fire, candle, food, or drink, with an 
intimation from Mr. Baron Vaughan that he should not discharge 
them without an affidavit from a surgeon that the health of any 
one of them would be endangered by a longer protraction of ab¬ 
stinence. At one o’clock on Sunday afternoon the Jury were 
starved into unanimity, and returned a verdict for the defendant. 
[So far as we have been enabled to learn the facts of the case, 
it was one of peculiar difficulty. The lambs came from a farm 
which was not subject to the rot; and on the farm of the pur¬ 
chaser the rot was unknown : and yet they died of the rot. The 
question was, when and how they became infected. This was 
probably in the journey to or from the fair at Killingliam. 
The plaintiff imagined that he had a strong case from the cir- 
