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ON THE INTELLECTUAL AND 
love best to feed on ground which has been lately manured. 
Other shepherds accuse the heiracium pilosella (the mouse-eared 
hawk weed), which grows on poor soil with the sorrel, as the 
cause of the disease, but which no animal will touch except it is 
almost starved. 
A vast number of things have been mentioned as causes of this 
disease ; but the true one appears to me to be still hidden. This 
only is certain, that it is very readily produced in lambs which 
are accustomed to being well fed, whether in the stable or in the 
field, and which are suddenly put on scantier fare. An error 
which shepherds often fall into, is, of accustoming the animals to 
an abundance of food when young, which they cannot give them 
afterwards. When the disease is perceived in time, nourishing 
food and change of pasture are always successful. AtFrancken- 
feldt, malt seems to have been administered with good effect. 
But when the malady has made much progress, a remedy so 
efficacious as that which my friend has discovered is inestimable. 
Edit, of the Annales de Logelin. 
This appears to be little more than the diarrhoea and lioose 
(query , bronchitis), with which lambs are so frequently and 
fatally attacked, when exposed to cold or partial starvation soon 
after weaning. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that the 
draconcule had much or any thing to do with it, or existed any 
where, except in the imagination of the Baron. We can form 
no conception of worms capable of doing so much mischief, and 
which, ere the animal is cold, vanish into film. 
The editor of the “ Annales” is perfectly right as to the 
proper and generally successful treatment of this malady; but 
we insert the paper as the production of an intelligent as well 
as titled agriculturist; and because we are convinced that the 
virtue of the spirit of turpentine, in many of the diseases of 
cattle and sheep, is not sufficiently appreciated.— (Ed. Vet.) 
THE VETERINARIAN , SEPTEMBER 1 , 1832 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
We return, on the alternate month, to a subject in which we 
acknowledge that we feel much interest, “ the intellectual and 
moral faculties of our patients.” We have shewn that with regard 
to the foundations of intellectual power, viz. attention, memory, 
association, and imagination, the difference between the biped 
and his quadruped slave is in degree and not in kind. And now 
