Rot

(rot.) [From A. S. rotan.] A fatal disease incident to sheep, when exposed to wet seasons and moist pastures. It is characterized by lo of flesh, and flabby feel of the remainder; absence of liveline ; livid color in the lips, tongue, .; fe tor of breath; little and high colored urine; irregularity of the bowels; and rotting of the wool. It is extremely difficult to prevent this distemper if the year prove very wet, especially in May and June. Salt marshes, and lands where broom grows, are the best places for the animals so affected. The livers of sheep dying of the R. are found to be infested with worms called flukes. (Bot.) See DRY ROT, and POTATO -DISEASE. [s. 780] Zell's Condensed Cyclopedia