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herd with tobacco boiled in water, but the disease progressed, 
and shortly all the sheep in the flock were more or less 
affected. He having consulted me in the month of October, 
I told him that the best means to employ against the affec¬ 
tion was the arsenical bath, with which we had always 
hitherto succeeded in such cases. He instructed me to sup¬ 
ply the necessary medicaments, and I ordered 20 kilogrammes 
of sulphate of zinc and 4 kilogrammes of arsenious anhydride 
from a druggist in Paris. 
The proprietor having informed me that the shearing 
would take place on the 9th November, I came the next 
day at about 10 a.m. Two empty folds had been 
washed and strewed with fresh litter, to receive the sheep 
after they came from the bath, for it was too cold to turn 
them out in the court; the racks were filled with fodder. I 
dissolved 2 kilogrammes of arsenic in a chaldron of boiling 
water, and when the solution was completed, I added 10 
kilogrammes of the salt contained in the bag, previously 
unopened, labelled “ Sulphate of Zinc, 20 kilogrammes.” 
I then completed the bath with sufficient cold and hot 
water to make 200 litres, with a temperature of 15° to 20°. 
Each sheep was then passed into the bath for about two 
minutes. On coming out, he was placed on a hurdle sup¬ 
ported on an empty wash-tub to receive the drippings, and was 
while there wiped by means of a sweat scraper, then intro¬ 
duced into the prepared fold, which was next to that where 
the hath was placed. Between half-past nine and half-past 
eleven fifty-one sheep thus were bathed. This being dinner 
time the operation was interrupted. When we were going 
to recommence (at one p.m.), after the bath was ready, the 
proprietor and myself were astonished to find two sheep 
dead, five or six lying down, and almost all the others not 
feeding, though they had been left hungry before the ope¬ 
ration. On examination of the most severely affected ones, 
which were motionless on the litter, with their heads 
turned round on the flank, I found the following sym¬ 
ptoms :—Ears cold, conjunctiva injected, mouth warm, pulse 
small and quick, beats of the heart irregular, respirations 
accelerated, excrements normal. Autopsy of one of the 
dead ones showed me nothing abnormal in the abdominal 
cavity, for the stomach, liver, spleen, intestines, and bladder 
presented no trace either of inflammation nor of ecchymosis. 
The lungs, heart, and veins were filled with dark-coloured 
blood, which had not clotted. I immediately administered 
to some of the sheep milk, to others eggs, coffee, and warm 
wine; some also were carried into the kitchen, where a good 
