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. But, should the like occur in the sheep,
death ensues. Be its kidneys, however, as fat as they may, they are
never so fat but that some part, if not in both at any rate in the
right one, is left free. The reason why sheep are the only animals
that suffer in this manner, or suffer more than others, is that in
animals whose fat is composed of lard this is of fluid consistency, so
that there is not the same chance in their case of wind getting shut
in and causing mischief. But it is to such an enclosure of wind that
rot is due. And thus even in men, though it is beneficial to them to
have fat kidneys, yet should these organs become over-fat and
diseased, deadly pains ensue. As to those animals whose fat consists
of suet, in none is the suet so dense as in the sheep, neither is it
nearly so abundant; for of all animals there is none in which the
kidneys become so soon gorged with fat as in the sheep. Rot, then,
is produced by the moisture and the wind getting shut up in the
kidneys, and is a malady that carries off sheep with great rapidity.
For the disease forthwith reaches the heart, passing thither by the
aorta and the great vessel, the ducts which connect these with the
kidneys being of unbroken continuity.
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We have now dealt with the heart and the lung, as also with the
liver, spleen, and kidneys. The latter are separated from the former
by the midriff or, as some call it, the Phrenes
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