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being exactly the same as described. I have made many 
post-mortem examinations, and found in every case that the 
ewes are pregnant with two or three lambs. The farmers 
who have given their ewes plenty of “ trough food 99 while 
on turnips have never had better success ; but those who 
have done the ewes badly have suffered severely. 
The treatment I have adopted is to have the ewes removed 
from turnips and supplied with plenty of good trough food 
mixed with which is some tonic medicine. I have found 
that the ewes have plenty of fat about them, although the 
blood is so impoverished. I should add that it was at the 
commencement of the lambing season that we had the greatest 
losses. 
If you think that this confirmatory statement will interest 
the readers of the Veterinarian , I shall be pleased for this 
short communication being inserted in your next issue. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF VISCERAL 
INFLAMMATION. 
By Nicholson Almond, Veterinary Student Royal 
Veterinary College. 
The great mortality attendant upon inflammation of the 
various viscera is well known to all students of medicine, 
and any facts, old or new, which when applied may tend to 
reduce the percentage of deaths from this cause would be 
welcomed by all who take an interest in their profession. 
The close relations existing between physiology and patho¬ 
logy are now fully recognised, and to insure the consideration 
of any particular line of treatment by those whose con¬ 
sideration is of value, it is necessary to show that the 
conclusions arrived at are based upon observed facts, ex¬ 
perimental or otherwise; and the rational outcome of accu¬ 
rate reasoning. 
Fortified by the consciousness that success will attend 
treatment having such a basis, the practitioner confidently 
applies it, and with the happiest result; without such a 
basis there is no pleasure in resorting to treatment at all. 
In the following lines it is endeavoured to show that the 
treatment recommended is based upon the undoubted facts 
of physiology and pathology. 
The treatment is not new, for in a partial manner it has 
