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SCAB IN SHEEP. 
A MONTH or two since we directed attention to the great 
prevalence of scab among the sheep in various parts of the 
country^ and the serious losses which many persons were 
sustaining among their breeding flocks, in particular, from 
this disease. Since then several communications have reached 
us seeking advice on the subject, and some requesting our 
attendance at County Courts to give evidence in cases in 
which actions had been commenced for the recovery of damages 
sustained by the sale of infected sheep. In most of these cases 
the persons principally concerned appeared to be totally igno¬ 
rant of the nature and cause of the disease, and hence legal 
proceedings have been taken in instances in which it was im¬ 
possible to prove the existence of the disease at the time of 
sale. Scab in sheep is allied, in its pathological results, 
to scabies—itch—of man, and depends on the same cause, 
the existence of acari. It seems to us that the state of our 
law requires amending on matters connected with parasitic 
diseases affecting animals. 
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF TWO CASES OF 
UTERINE HEMORRHAGE. 
Mr. H. King, M.R.C.V.S., Melbourn, Derby, has forwarded 
to us a short description of two cases of uterine hsemorrhage 
in the cow following on parturition, in which he succeeded in 
suppressing the bleeding by slowly injecting cold water into 
the womb. By furnishing himself with two bladders, and 
holding each in succession, when filled with water, in contact 
with the large end of the pipe of an ordinary clyster-syringe, 
and pressing the bladder with the other hand, he was enabled to 
introduce the fluid very gradually and with little force. Three 
gallons were thus injected. The patients were freely supplied 
with restoratives, consisting chiefly of brandy from time to 
time. 
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