Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ... Essay on tie Diseases of Sheep: Drawn up from Communications furnijhed by Dr GlLLESPIE, Phjftcian in Edinlurgh, together with Hints by Dr Coventry, Profeflbr cf Agriculture in the Univerjtty. With Notes, fttggejledfrom Obfervations in Tiueeddale, tfc. Tt is fuppofed by thofe who have beft accefs to information on the fubjecl:, that the ifiand of Great Britain contains about thirty millions of fheep; and that of thefe, from three to four millions annually die of difeafe. Were we to average the large fheep of England, with thofe of lefs value in Scotland, the annual lofs, from this caufe, would not be lefs than from two to three millions Sterling: A lofs which is certainly of very ferious concern to the nation at large, as well as to individuals. The mortality of fheep, by difeafe, is more than double that of the human race--if we abftraft, from the latter, the wafte occafioned by wars, and by the accidents incident to commerce and navigation. It mull therefore appear to be an object of great national importance, to inveftigate the means of preventing, or curing, the difeafes to which Iheep are. expofed. In the following Effay, we do not pretend to offer a perfect treatife upon the fubjefl. All we aim at, is to give a fhort catalogue of the various difeafes, and to fuggeft, under each article, the mod obvious means either of prevention, or of cure. On a fubjeft which has never been fcientifically in Teftigated, veftigated, miftakes are unavoidable; and thefe we leave to be correded by the candour of the reader. Moft authors who have treated of the difeaTes of brute animals, have fluffed their books with a long feries of noftrums and prefcriptions, where the ingredients are exceflively complex, and which either do not mix, or deftroy each..
