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dressed, were turned into a barren part of a field to drip. 
About an hour or so afterwards the shepherd noticed some 
of them looking badly, and in a short space of time they 
began to die, and by the morning only sixteen remained alive 
out of the entire number. It is supposed that they had 
sucked the moisture from each other’s wool, there being no 
water in the field, and the great heat causing them much 
thirst .—Sussex Express. 
POISONING OF PIGS BY AN ACCIDENTAL PARTAKING OF 
SHEEP-DIPPING MIXTURE. 
Within the past month we have been consulted in a 
similar case to the preceding in the accidental poisoning of 
some valuable pigs, the property of an influential member of 
the Royal Agricultural Society. It appears that the shepherd 
emptied some “ sheep-dipping mixture,” which he had to 
spare after dressing the sheep, into the yard where the pigs 
were kept, and that the animals, driven by extreme thirst 
consequent on the great heat which prevailed, drank some of 
the fluid. In this way twenty-two were killed. One of the 
animals was sent to the College and examined by Assistant 
Professor Varnell, who found that the immediate deleterious 
effects of the agent were produced on the mucous membrane 
of the mouth and fauces. These parts were intensely in¬ 
flamed and covered over with a thick layer of effused lymph, 
which likewise extended into the larvnx and a short distance 
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down the trachea, causing death by asphyxia. 
The entire lining membrane of the oesophagus was 
similarly covered with lymph, down to the cardiac orifice of 
the stomach, which organ, however, was scarcely diseased. 
The mixture w r as composed of arsenic, sulphur, and soft-soap, 
in solution. 
FLOURENS ON ANIMALS. 
“ Animals,” says M. Flourens, “ perceive, think, and 
reflect; but man is the only one of created beings w 7 ho pos¬ 
sesses the attribute of perceiving that he perceives, of know¬ 
ing that he knows, and of thinking that he thinks.” 
