SHEEP DISEASES : CAUSES, NATURE AND PREVENTION. 
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constantly being formed; the liver seizes on these, as it were, 
and sends them back into the intestines, whence they are ultimately 
got rid of in the dung (faeces). Even that deadly poison with 
which Indians have for ages poisoned their arrows, known as 
curara-woorara, or the woorali poison, is harmless when swal¬ 
lowed ; and this, it is believed, is due to the guardian function of 
the liver. 
One substance of importance is found largely in the liver, and 
acts as a stimulant to it, viz., iron , and when it is given in over¬ 
doses, it is believed that the liver returns it to the intestines. 
The cells of the liver after a meal contain large quantities of 
fatty matter, become infiltrated with it in fact, and if feeding on 
such matters is persisted in, fat takes the place of the normal tissue 
elements and the organ becomes practically a mass of fat—as seen 
in the liver (pate de foie gras) of Strasburg geese. Fatty trans¬ 
formation means annihilation of all those important functions to 
which reference has been made. 
No bile is secreted, consequently it is lost for digestive pur¬ 
poses, for stimulating the activity of the intestines and for anti¬ 
septic purposes; and it is largely owing to the last fact that purga¬ 
tion takes place in the advanced stages of liver disease—arrest of 
the secretion of bile leading at the outset to constipation. The 
opposite condition of softening, i. e ., fibroid change, takes place 
from the action of continued irritation as in sheep and cattle by 
the fluke worm (in rot); and in man, by over-indulgence in spirits, 
the organ becomes hard, constituting “gin drinker’s liver.” 
Moreover, if the liver is not acting, poisonous matter is absorbed 
and produces its deleterious effects on the brain and nervous sys¬ 
tem generally, as well as upon the blood. 
(To be continued .) 
Clark —“Well, I will declare! Smithers, how you have 
picked up lately.” Smithers —“Yes, yes; things were bad 
enough with me a little while back, but I happened to run across 
and they put me in position to make money right along. If you 
know of anybody else needing employment, here is their name 
and address.” 
