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do they not make a way of escape by each propounding and 
establishing his peculiar views ? Surely this should not be. 
Again, who has not witnessed the different opinions given as 
to soundness even when two veterinary surgeons agree that 
some certain disease does exist, and which is acknowledged 
by the law to be unsoundness? The one feels it his duty 
(as no doubt it is) legally to reject such an animal; the other 
just as strenuously opposes it because he says the horse does 
not show any lameness. 
Now the law does not sanction such ambiguity as this; 
I therefore cannot think that the law must be entirely blamed 
for the present unhappy state of things. 
That the law of warranty does recpiire some alteration, 
there is no doubt, and at a future period I will respectfully 
submit in what particulars, and offer a few suggestions as a 
remedy. 
A FATAL DISEASE AFFECTING PRINCIPALLY 
THE LIVER OF SHEEP. 
By G. Wentworth, M.R.C.V.S., Great Grimsby. 
A somewhat singular and very fatal disease recently 
broke out in a flock of sheep in this neighbourhood, a short 
description of which I have thought may not be without 
interest to some of the readers of the Veterinarian. 
The sheep were the property of Mr. Edward Smith, of 
Riby Grove, seven miles from Grimsby. Mr. Smith had, in 
addition to his other sheep, about two hundred wethers, 
which during the early part of last winter were kept on 
turnips. 
The beginning of February they were removed to Swede 
turnips, and allowed half a pound of linseed cake each per 
day. 
The latter part of March, or the beginning of April, they 
were turned into a field of red clover, or what is called in 
this neighbourhood “ cow grass.” There was a little rye 
grass amongst it. It was intended to have been mown, 
but from some cause or other, Mr. Smith changed his mind, 
and grazed it. The sheep were now allowed one pound of 
cake each per day. 
For some time after they were placed on the red clover 
they went on remarkably well; and before the month of 
June one hundred of them were sold, fat, and the remainder 
