On the rot in sheep / By Edward Harrison.

  • Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838
Date:
1803
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the rot in sheep / By Edward Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I am persuaded that the mortality of our soldiers would, on some occasions have been less considerable, had the situations for en¬ campments and military hospitals been chosen with more care and attention. They should always be placed upon dry grounds and where it is practicable, at a considerable distance from stagnant waters and moist plains. The evening and night air is to be carefully avoided in unhealthy situations, except when duty obliges the soldier to expose himself to it. As such times he should never lie down or re¬ main at rest, and ought to be covered with warm clothes; a dose of bark and a proper quantity of wine or some other generous liquor, will sometimes be necessary to maintain the vigour of the constitution, and protect it from the sur¬ rounding exhalations. It is generally admitted that ploughed fields well laid down wuth grass seeds, are net in much danger for the first two years; after this time the herbage giadually declines, and in conse¬ quence of it, sheep become liable to rot. I am inclined to believe that miasmata are less copiously produced in calcareous than in other countries, because it is an established fact, that * the moisture of the Lincolnshire wrold hills, (a large mass of calcareous matter) seldom pro. duces the rot. When therefore, from insur-
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