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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
OS uteri; is broad and thick; differing greatly in this respect 
from so-called vaginal polypi. Its weight is a little short of 
twenty-one pounds. 
A microscopic examination showed that its substance was 
made up of fibres arranged in the form of network; the 
meshes of which contained exudation corpuscles. 
DEATH OF A NUMBER OF SHEEP FROM THE 
EFFECTS OF NITRATE OF POTASH. 
We are indebted to Mr. Batcheldei*; M.R.C.V.S.; of 
Grantham; for the following explanation of a paragrapli 
which has appeared in several papers on the poisoning of 
sheep by nitrate of potash. 
Mr. Batchelder writes : 
I have inquired respecting the sheep belonging to Mr. 
George Freistone; of Witham Common; near Granthani; 
and have ascertained that he, having lost several lambs from 
a dropsical disease locally termed ‘ White Water,’ or ‘Red 
AYater^ when tinged with the colouring matter of the blood, 
supposed to have been caused by the long-continued scarcity of 
food and water, resolved to adopt a remedy recommended by 
the shepherd. The disaster appears to have arisen from the 
misapplication of the term ‘ nitric,’ which is frequently applied 
to the spirit of nitric ether in this part of the country, and 
for which nitrate of potash was substituted. The chemist 
cautioned Mr. Freistone respecting its properties, but that 
gentleman had sufficient faith in his shepherd to administer 
the following : 
Sulphate soda . 
Nitrate potash 
Oil of terpentine 
“Volatile Ammonia” 
1 oz.p 
1 oz. J 
2 ozs 
1 oz. 
each. 
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to 30 lambs. 
“ The above was administered to 226 lambs, which were 
rather in a weakly state, out of which 130 died. 
“ The shepherd intended to give nitric ether instead of 
nitre. 
Facts and Observations. 
Removal oftiieRestrictions relative to Imported 
Hay from America. —“The Lords of Her Majesty’s Most 
Privy Council, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in 
them vested under The Contagious Diseases (Animals’ Acts, 
and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do 
hereby revoke their Orders bearing date the fifteenth day of 
September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and 
