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local inflammation^ lameness, difficulty in voiding of the dung, 
and a much greater mortality. The author has been informed 
by his professional colleagues of considerable swelling having 
occurred about the head when the ear had been selected; 
but he has never met with them in his own practice, but this 
might occur when the cartilage of the ear has become 
involved. 
In 1867 the malady prevailed extensively, and only few 
flocks escaped, these being far removed from the main roads, 
between the mountains and in isolated valleys, but they 
caught it the following year, being infected, as it appeared, 
through the inoculation of the lambs of neighbouring flocks, 
so that none escaped the infection in the whole district. The 
losses were, in the month of August and September, in those 
flocks where the malady had broke out, and judicious inocu¬ 
lation had been resorted to, from 2 to 5 per cent.; while, 
where no inoculation was adopted, and the malady took its 
course, they were from 12 to 20 per cent. In November, 
when the weather was cold and frosty, the losses were still 
more considerable. In the latter part of the autumn (same 
year) the sheep-pox broke out in a flock of 2000 ; the sheep 
were in very good condition, but the malady had a firm hold 
of the flock before any information of it was given, and not¬ 
withstanding every precaution, such as separation, disinfec¬ 
tion, and the establishment of a sanitarium, eight hundred 
of them fell a sacrifice to this frightful malady ; the dead were 
removed by cartloads, and the stench was unbearable. The 
flock was one of the finest and best kept in the country ; the 
wool, which always commanded a high price, was completely 
ruined; even those sheep which recovered had to be draughted, 
on account of the loss of the wool by the lesions on the skin 
caused by the pox. Since this it has been customary to 
inoculate the lambs, in September and October, in the whole 
district. 
The losses by preventive inoculation are very small, and 
depend greatly on the way the patients are protected from 
the weather. They generally range from one fifth to one half 
per cent. 
In 1859, the author was removed to the district of Stolp, 
where he was hardly installed when he was requested on-all 
sides by the sheep owners to perform the protective inocula¬ 
tion of their flocks. The sanitary laws in reference to the 
sheep-pox only went back to the year 1853, previous to w'hich 
it seems to have been unknown ; at least, no record of it 
could be found in the governmental archives. But from 
these it appeared that in 1853-5 it prevailed in most 
