41Q MODERN FARRIER. 



The following judicious treatment of this disorder 

 is recommended by Sir George Mackenzie: — Let 

 the animal, in the first place, get a dose of Glauber 

 salts. The ulcer having been laid open and cleaned, 

 it is to be washed with weak caustic ley of potash, 

 or soda, and filled with scraped linen, dipped in oil, 

 or, what is better, goulard cerate. The dressing of 

 cerate is to be continued, every evening, until gra- 

 nulations of flesh appear to be filling up the space 

 formerly occupied by the matter of the ulcer ; and if 

 it shovild be necessary, the washing with caustic ley 

 may be repeated. Common cerate may then be ap- 

 plied, and should the flesh grow too luxuriantly, a 

 little red precipitate and burnt alum may be dusted 

 upon it. When a wholesome suppurative discharge 

 has taken place, gentle pressure may be applied to 

 bring the sides of the sore towards each other, taking 

 care always to give free vent to the matter. The 

 limb should be carefully washed with vinegar and 

 water. 



6. The Rot. 



Symptoms. — Dr. Coventry says that Rot is a 

 word which has been employed to express a variety 

 of disorders affecting the sheep, with no small con- 

 fusion and detriment. Yet all the species of rot 

 may be reduced to one. But when the disease has 

 advanced, it beomes very complicated, and has been 

 deemed incurable. The complication of disorders, 

 which are always observed in the advanced stages of 

 the rot, might be expected where bad food is sup- 

 posed to be the cause of it ; for this must vitiate the 

 blood, and different organs may then become dis- 

 eased. Accordingly we find the liver, the lungs, 

 and the whole system affected, and water is fre- 

 quently found in the belly. It is very probable 

 that consumption of the lungs is a common disease 

 among sheep ; and that it has, in many instances, 



