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consistence with water in a dish; upon this 

 pour gently sulphuric acid, and chlorine gas 

 will be disengaged, which, when sufficient 

 has been disengaged to make it unpleasant 

 to the operator, he should retire, taking the 

 apparatus with him, and leave the animals , 

 to inhale the medicated air. After this give 

 some such mixture as the following : Take 

 powdered nitre, ^ lb. ; common salt, 3 lb. ; 

 powdered ginger, ^Ib.; boilingwater,3galls.; 

 when nearly cold, add spirit of turpentine, 24 

 oz., and shake all well together. The dose of 

 this for lambs four to six months old is 2 oz., or 

 four tablespoonfuls. These doses may be 

 repeated every second or third day for a few 

 times ; and in localities where this disease 

 prevails, a few doses should be given in July 

 and August. This will often prevent the 

 scouring and mortality so common amongst 

 lambs when first upon turnips. Cake, peas, 

 beans, or corn should be given unsparingly in 

 every case of this kind, and it should be given 

 before the diarrhoea has rendered the digestive 

 organs too weak to assimilate the food, for 

 we know by our own experience, that when 

 we suffer from indigestion, no food, however 

 good, agrees with us or does us good. 



WHITE SCOUR IN LAMBS. 



The next variety of scour is that which 

 occurs in young lambs, and is first noticed 

 when a lamb that has been healthy, and the 



ewe yielding a sufficient quantity of milk, is 

 evidently distressed, and the evacuations all 

 of a pale colour, exceedingly acrid, causing 

 great irritation and excoriation of the parts 

 they pass through. This disease is called 

 white scour, and mostly attacks lambs when 

 the ewes are highly fed on turnips, and at the 

 same time with oats, peas, oil-cake, &c., or 

 when turned into strong, rank grass. The real 

 cause of this affection I believe to be an un- 

 healthy condition of the milk secreted, owing 

 to the too-luxuriant feeding on highly-nitro- 

 genized food. The young stomach is not 

 equal to the digestive power it is called upon 

 to exercise ; the milk becomes coagulated, 

 and the stomach has been found quite 

 filled with curd, even to the weight of 3 or 4 

 lb. For treatment, first let the manage- 

 ment be altered, and in no case does 

 chemistry come to our aid with more 

 decided power. A free acid (lactic) in ex- 

 cess has caused the mischief; and to neu- 

 tralize that acid by an alkali will always be 

 the most successful plan of treatment. Take 

 bicarbonate of potass, i scruple ; carbonate 

 magnesia, ^ drachm ; given in water for a 

 dose, and repeated freely if required ; and 

 after a few doses have been given, add pow- 

 dered rhubarb, Y^ scruple, powdered ginger, 

 5 grains, mixed with it, and given in pepper- 

 mint water. With such management the 

 disease will be quickly arrested. 



DIAGNOSIS— DISCRIMINATION OF DISEASE. 



THE following article, taken from the 

 Country Geijtleman^ is a continuation 

 of the remarks which appeared in our last 

 number (page 67) : — 



Diagnosis, or the art of distinguishing 

 one disease from another, is one of the 

 most difficult divisions of veterinary science 

 — partly owing to the many different forms of 

 the same disease, to be found with the various 

 animals, and partly to the impossibility of ob- 

 taining information in regard to its cause or 



development. Our most able physicians, 

 with all the means of obtaining information 

 which they possess, are sometimes greatly 

 embarrassed by the difficulties attending this 

 branch of their labours ; is it to be wondered, 

 then, that the veterinarian should find 

 it is the most troublesome of questions^ 

 hence he is obliged to study it in half 

 a-dozen different forms according to the pecu- 

 liarities presented by as many different species 

 of animals? But the physician, who confines 



