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butchers, and they were infected with the rot. On the 13th of 
the following July I attended fifteen of these sheep, all lame with 
the rot; the forty-nine others were sound. After having operated 
upon, and dressed, and separated the diseased, I interrogated 
the shepherd, and he confessed that he had disobeyed the in¬ 
junctions of his master. 
4. The rot had not again appeared at the latter part of Novem¬ 
ber 1827, when the shepherd had leave of absence for eight days. 
During that time the flock was driven to its pasturage by a girl 
thirteen years old, who, for the sake of the company of other 
shepherds and shepherdesses, suffered them to feed with their 
sheep, and particularly with those of one person among whose 
flock the rot had committed such ravages that many of the ani¬ 
mals dragged themselves on their knees, and all were in a state 
of complete emaciation. The flock had been confided five days 
to the care of this girl before Mr. Vidal was informed of what 
was taking place. He immediately dismissed her, and him¬ 
self took charge of the sheep until the return of the shepherd. 
On the 14th of December he informed his master that eleven of 
the sheep were very lame. I saw them on the 20th, and recog¬ 
nized the foot-rot. 
5. Until June 1828, none of the sheep were affected with foot- 
rot, in consequence of the care which had been taken to keep 
them separate from other flocks. On the 9th of June M. Vidal 
bought twenty-six sheep of the Poictiers breed, whose feet he 
washed and carefully examined before he placed them with his 
former flock. On the 17th of the same month his servant 
bought a sheep from the commune of Peintures. He purchased 
it from a flock in which the rot prevailed, but as he was not lame 
he thought there would be no danger in suffering it to join the 
flock of his master. Some days afterwards this sheep became 
lame; but the shepherd said nothing about it, for he attributed 
the lameness to a bite from his dog in that leg. On the 13th of 
J uly seven of the sheep began to go lame, and I recognized the 
existence of foot-rot in all of them. 
Recueil de Med. Vet., Juin 1831. 
Cholera among domestic Animals. 
I shall now mention, as coming under my own immediate 
observation, and not undeserving notice, as I cannot help con¬ 
necting it with the cause of my attack, a remarkable coincidence, 
of what may be supposed atmospheric deterioration in some way, 
at this time:—that, for a week before, there had been a singular 
epidemic disease among the poultry in my compound, and in the 
