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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Sheep affected with scab have also been landed in this 
country from Rotterdam and Dunkirk. 
In Great Britain there are thirty-seven counties reported 
as infected. Between eight and nine hundred cases of the 
disease are alleged to exist in the county of Norfolk alone. 
Facts and Observations. 
Curious Affection of Horses in India. —Having seen 
in your paper (The Field) of March 23 a letter referring to 
a peculiar derangement of the urine to which horses in India 
are subject, I will endeavour, if possible, to throw some 
light upon the subject. 1 have, during service in India, seen 
several horses affected in the way mentioned by your corre¬ 
spondent, passing the urine without pain, but at the same 
time highly discoloured. Sometimes the whole of the urine 
passed would be discoloured, sometimes only a portion of it, 
and sometimes the first part would be of a natural colour 
and apparently healthy, whilst the end would be very much 
discoloured, and leaving a deposit presenting the appearance 
of small clots of blood, but all passed without straining or 
pain. 
I may mention here that this derangement was said (in 
one case at least) by a veterinary surgeon, a gentleman ol 
great experience, not to be haematuria. 
I have not seen horses affected in this way except when in 
hard work, in training for races especially, and 1 have never 
seen or heard of an Arab so affected. I had always supposed 
it peculiar to Australians and stud-bred horses, Australians 
especially. I remember particularly one horse, an Austra¬ 
lian, who was when in training very liable to it; if he had 
been kept out in the sun longer than usual, it almost always 
came on; but if he did his work early, and got home without 
being exposed to the sun, he was free from it. 
The only cure for it is, I believe, a little rest, non-exposure 
to the sun, and slight change of diet together, with a dose or 
two of nitre ; in fact, if the horse is not exposed to the sun, 
it will cure itself. 
• M y notion of the cause is that the sudden and extreme 
heat of the sun, after the cold or comparatively cold night 
and morning, together with the highly fed and full-blooded 
